Can’t Say It There: ‘Down with Fidel!’
The Revolution Will Be Illuminated! Reviewing Edel Rodriguez’s Stunning Graphic Memoir, ‘Worm’
“Down with the revolution!“ said Cesareo “Tato” Rodriguez after fleeing Cuba and reaching U.S. shores in the Mariel boatlift of 1980. “Down with Fidel!” Tato said it here because—as his son, the illustrator Edel Rodriguez, details in his graphic memoir, Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey—he couldn’t say it there.
