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...goes on to say the "will to cut cane" is what guarantees success in work and that the 216 of us will be divided into seven brigades for the daily seven-hour work routine...
Twelve hours later, after an hour and a half bus ride in the middle of a moonless night to our cane-cutting camp and a little sleep, we sit in the open-ended recreation hall, really just a long thatched roof on stilts, for an orientation rap from Javier, the director of the camp...
...them. The achievements of the first group may prove difficult to duplicate. Taking the name Brigada Venceremos (rough translation: the We Shall Overcome Brigade), they worked alongside Cuban workers, including, on one occasion, none other than Fidel, who is said to spend at least four hours a day cutting cane. After nearly two months, the 216 Americans reached their goal: a harvest of 1,000,000 arrobas (about 25 million Ibs.). For their efforts, they received a most ironic title, considering Cuba's emphasis on socialist orthodoxy: "the Millionaires...
...members of the Venceremos Brigade, who returned last week from eight weeks of touring and harvesting sugar cane in Cuba, faced the television lights and tattersol pants of the establishment press in a small coffee house near Central Square yesterday...
Michael Kazin '70 said the Cuban people love their work so much that city people volunteered their free time and weekends to go out into the fields and harvest the crops. Even Fidel Castro, he said, spends four hours each day cutting cane, and "cuts like hell...