Remembering—and Forgetting—the Cuban Revolution
The history of Cubans’ mobilizations of, reckonings with, and debates over their past has not yet been fully told
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There are two widely familiar versions of the Cuban story.
According to the first, on January 1, 1959, a ragtag band of rebels swept down from the Sierra Maestra, delivering Cuba from the clutches of short-term dictatorship and longer neocolonial submission to the United States. In this view, the “triumph” of ...
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