Celia is honored. The neighborhood committee has voted her little brick-and-cement house by the sea as the primary lookout for Santa Teresa del Mar. From her porch, Celia could spot another Bay of Pigs invasion before it happened. She would be feted at the palace, serenaded by a brass orchestra, seduced by El Líder himself on a red velvet divan. . . . . My mother says that Abuela Celia’s had plenty of chances to leave Cuba but that she’s stubborn and got her head turned around by El Líder. Mom says “Communist” the way some people says “cancer,” low and fierce. She reads the newspapers page by page for leftist conspiracies, jams her finger against imagined evidence and says, “See. What did I tell you? . . . . They’re dangerous subversives, red to the bone!” —Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina García What are the political opinions of Celia and her daughter Lourdes? Celia does not support Fidel Castro, but Lourdes does. Lourdes does not support Fidel Castro, and Celia supports him only on some issues. Celia and Lourdes have very different opinions about Cuban politics. Celia and Lourdes strongly agree about Cuban politics.