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MADEA BENJAMIN, Lauding Fidel Castro & Communist Cuba From 1979-83, Benjamin lived in Fidel Castro’s Cuba with her first husband (a black, pro-Castro Cuban), who was the coach of that country’s national basketball team. There, Benjamin found work as a writer for Cuba’s Communist Party newspaper. “It was all about what Fidel Castro did every day,” Benjamin would later say in her description of that publication. “And I was translating Fidel Castro’s speeches. I must say, he’s brilliant. And the fact that anybody could talk for five hours without a note and put facts and figures and all kinds of things, I mean, I was just amazed by this guy’s brain.”