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MIAMI BEACH -- Frank de Varona remembers when he first smelled a rat, when the Cuban American history teacher realized he was the product of..
Frank de Varona remembers when he first smelled a rat, when the Cuban American history teacher realized he was the product of an educational conspiracy designed to deny him his heritage.
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It was the day he met Ronald Reagan.
In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Week, Reagan handed de Varona a presidential proclamation a decade ago extolling the contributions of Hispanics in general and of Bernardo de Galvez in particular.
There was just one problem.
“Who the hell is this guy?” de Varona wondered.
“I didn’t have a clue who Galvez was. And neither did anyone else in the room.”
It was then that de Varona began his crusade to lead a national movement that is now struggling to give credit where credit is due to Hispanics in U.S.
history.
It turns out that Bernardo de Galvez was the Spanish governor of Louisiana who opened the Port of New Orleans to American ships during the Revolutionary War, which attacked British forts along the Mississippi and