Richard Raeke
- Trip:
- Fellows Spring 2001
- Affiliation during program:
- Anniston Star
- Country:
- Cuba
- Year:
- 2001
- Email:
- rraeke@hotmail.com
Richard Raeke covers the environment for The Anniston Star in Anniston, Alabama, where he has written about widespread PCB contamination. He was formerly the newspaper's business writer and traveled to Mexico to report on the migration of the apparel industry from Alabama to Latin America. Before joining The Star, he worked for small community newspapers in Georgia and his home state of Maine. He received a B.A. in Anthropology from Beloit College in Wisconsin and has worked on cattle and sheep ranches in Australia and New Zealand.
Stories
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Risky Journalism in Castro’s Cuba, reporters who reject the party line pay dearly
HAVANA, Cuba- They are a sullen bunch, smoking cigarette after cigarette as they wait their turn to use a single telephone in a small apartment. Suddenly, the doorbell ...
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Castro’s Cuba ‘Revolution’ Becomes ‘devolution’
I played deaf a couple of times in Cuba. After four weeks the hustlers had put me in so many socially awkward situations that it became my game to turn the tables ...
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