¿Vamos Bien?
Eric Hershberg: Cuba and America, 28 May 2009
Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos
by Louis Pérez.
North Carolina, 333 pp., £32.95, August 2008,978 0 8078 3216 5 Show More
by Louis Pérez.
North Carolina, 333 pp., £32.95, August 2008,
Cuba in Revolution: A History since the 1950s
by Antoni Kapcia.
Reaktion, 208 pp., £15.95, September 2008,978 1 86189 402 1 Show More
by Antoni Kapcia.
Reaktion, 208 pp., £15.95, September 2008,
“... the batalla de las ideas designed by his older brother to rekindle ideological fervour. Despite Antoni Kapcia’s claim that the revolution avoided personality cults, Havana is full of billboards showing Che, Hugo Chávez and, above all, El Comandante – my favourite has him dressed in full olive drab regalia, gazing out benevolently, saying ‘vamos ... ”