Bardach moved to Carpinteria nearly 20 years ago. She lives with her husband, actor robert Lesser, and their beagle, Lupe. a new yorker at heart with a home address amid avocado ranches, Bardach considers Santa Barbara at large to be home. as we walked Lupe through her neighborhood and toured her beautifully gracious and quirky home, she talked about politics, Carpinteria, the Carpinteria Valley Water District Board of Directors and the media.
Is there anything you can say about the Luis Posada case?
Well, it’s a problem, the case, for everybody. Because even though Luis Posada is an alleged terrorist, the problem is that when people give interviews to reporters and reporters then turn it over to the government it’s not going to take long before people decide not to talk to reporters. and the second issue is that the Bush
administration has no interest in this guy ... they don’t need the new york times or myself to prosecute them ... as i wrote in this Washington Post and this atlantic Monthly piece they closed the file on him and destroyed all the evidence. and i’m just not going to let them get away with it.
So, what’s the subtext of the story? oh, the subtext? i think the Bush
administra tion is playing politics with it because even though this guy has admitted to all kinds of bombing, he’s supported by some hard-line Cuban politicians in Florida. So, they’re just counting votes in Miami. it’s a cynical equation.
TOP, December 1993 Ann Louise Bardach interviews Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Her book Without Fidel; The Death of Castro and Other Tales (Scribners) is scheduled for a spring release.
CENTER, with Subcomondante Marcos, leader of the Chiapas rebellion in Mexico, 1994.
BOTTOM, interviewing John Lydon, better known as Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols, in the summer of 1980.
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