UNO prof leads students to Cuba to help renovate theater
UNO prof leads students to Cuba to help renovate theater
By Leslie Reed
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU
Published Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at 1:00 am / Updated at 6:44 am
LINCOLN — One of the Midlands' most frequent visitors to Cuba hopes a UNO educational and service exchange helps students dance toward a more open relationship with Cuba, which has been under a U.S. economic embargo since 1962.
Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado, a political science professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, says he has visited the island nation 26 times since he began studying Cuba as the employee of a California think tank in the early 1990s. He took 22 students to Cuba while he was on the faculty at the University of Georgia in 1998.
Since joining the UNO faculty in 2000, he has annually taken groups of students on study-abroad trips. This time, he is trying something new.
The eight-day trip features a service learning project, during which the six participating UNO students will assist Okan Tomi, an Afro-Cuban dance group, in renovating a theater in the Havana suburb of Marianao. The group arrived in Cuba on Sunday.
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Which would have made a lot more sense, actually... 
No doubt they'll be revving up their hate machine and going after him next.
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Simply beyond belief anyone could be that stupid, and that hate-filled. Their twisted, warped species is slippling backwards to the remote past even more quickly than normal.
