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An insightful personal memoir that contrasts firsthand the dream of the Cuban Revolution as it was in the early 1960s with the deprivations, hardships, and loss of hope that haunt Cuban society today.
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Copyright 1994 by Vanderbilt University Press Nashville, Tennessee 37235
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First Edition 1994 95 96 97 98 99 5 4 3 2
This publication is made from recycled paper and meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Halperin, Maurice, 1906 Return to Havana: the decline of Cuban society under Castro / by Maurice Halperin p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8265-1250-X 1. CubaEconomic conditions1959- 2. CubaSocial conditions1959 I. Title. HC152.5.H35 1994 306'.097291dc2091-41059 CIP
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To the Memory of Edith
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
1 Introduction
1
2 Two Cities
17
3 Rice, Beans, and Shoes
44
4 Perspective on the Political Economy
57
5 Portrait of a Loyalist
81
6 On the Sugar Treadmill
94
7 Out of Africa
108
8 All that Glitters
121
9 "The Cleanest Trial in History"
139
10 Rethinking Fidel Castro
163
Bibliography
193
Index
197
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Acknowledgments
I am grateful to Dr. William Saywell, former president of Simon Fraser University, for funding and otherwise facilitating my trip to Cuba. I have benefited from the flow of newspaper clippings provided by Arnold Court (Los Angeles Times), Judith and Hillel Gamoran (Chicago Tribune), David Halperin (the Mexican press), and Theodore Halperin (Boston Globe). Judith Gamoran and David Halperin read parts of the manuscript and made valuable suggestions. Antonio Cabal Rodrguez, a Cuban graduate student at Simon Fraser University, was helpful in many ways. Bard Young provided skilled and imaginative editorial guidance in shaping the manuscript.
Portions of the text have appeared or will appear in the journals Society: Social Science and Modern Society and Cuban Studies as well as in Cuban Communism, Eighth Edition, edited by Irving L. Horowitz.
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1 Introduction
MY INTEREST IN CUBA GOES BACK to 1935 when I was invited by Waldo Frank, chairman of the now long extinct League of American Writers, to join the playwright Clifford Odets as part of a "civic" committee put together to go to Cuba. The purpose was to investigateand confirmreports of horrendous abuse of striking workers by General Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship, the same Batista overthrown by Fidel Castro twenty-four years later. I was not a member of the League, like Odets, but apparently Frank was having trouble recruiting his quota for the committee. When I accepted the invitationI was then teaching at the University of Oklahoma, in Norman, and had published several articles on Latin American topicsI did not know the project was organized and probably funded by the American Communist party. But that is another story.
The trip began in New York with a rousing public send-off. Eminent sponsors like Archibald MacLeish and Carleton
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Beals made stirring speeches. However, when the steamer landed in Havana, we were taken into custody on the dock and transferred by armed police launch across the harbor to the immigration detention center in Tiscornia. Twenty-four hours later we were placed aboard the same steamer that had brought us to Cuba, and we promptly headed back to New York. Before we left Tiscornia, Odets received a cable expressing undying solidarity from his intimate friend and renowned stage actress Tallullah Bankhead. It was addressed to "Pisscornia, Havana, Cuba," which injected some humor into an otherwise melancholy episode. When I met Che Guevara in Moscow in 1960 and told him that story, he declared that I could claim to be a precursor of the Cuban Revolution, and he invited me and my wife, Edith, to visit Cuba. "This time," he said, "I promise you will not be deported."
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