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48 His Name Is Librado, Meaning “Freed” He is an old man when I learn he was there in the dark recesses of the new revolution’s prison, inherited from the deposed dictator, who had inherited it from the conquistadores. Now it was used for the secret tribunals against the new state’s old enemies. Because new business cannot proceed before old business. He was a young attorney providing ritual defense to men who were doomed to only one verdict from the sole jurist who had decided their fate before they had entered the high walls of the fortress. I see the judge’s face often in crowds and demonstrations on blood-red shirts of urban would-be guerrilleros. Che is smiling and handsome—the very picture of certitude whose details of excess have been excised by history, the witnesses being dead or haunted by the sound of executions occurring in the middle of the night. My uncle’s name is Librado, meaning “freed.” He carries within him stories that will not die. ...

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