Interview with Alfredo Durán, Bay of Pigs veteran who chaired the Florida Democratic Party from 1976 to 1980. By appointment by Florida governor Reubin Askew in 1973, he was the first Hispanic to serve on the Miami-Dade County School Board. A former president of the Veteran’s Association of Brigade 2506, Durán was asked to step down for his support of a dialogue with the Cuban government to bring about a transition in Cuba. He founded the Cuban Committee for Democracy in 1993.