EditorialRicardo Alarcón, then president of Cuba’s National Assembly, during an interview in Havana on May 2, 2001. (Librado Romero/The New York Times)
EditorialRicardo Alarcón, Cuba’s representative to the United Nations, give a speech on Aug. 18, 1972 at U.N. headquarters in New York in which he charged that Puerto Rico had been under U.S. colonial rule for 73 years. (Eddie Hausner/The New York Times)