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...never ends in Cuba. Lazara has gone back to school to become a journalist, Alberto to study literature and art. They will help to create the new communist culture, what Che has called "the culture of the twenty-first-century man." Juan will begin studying political science after the harvest...
...example is Ranl's attitude toward the harvest. "Naturally I am nostalgic for home. I am used to going home after work and playing with my children and all that. But this work is for the Revolution, which means it is for my children at the same time-to get for them and everyone in the Revolution all the things they need. The main thing I have had to learn in the Revolution is to live in collectivity and comradeship. Something that helped me very much was the scholarship school, where I had to live with others, and being...
...CUBANS see the success of this harvest as a test of their Revolution. Cuba in 1970 will produce three million more tons of sugar than the economy ever produced in any previous year. This achievement appears even more significant when you know that the one seven million ton harvest was in 1952, when sugar was really the only Cuban export worth mentioning (besides cigars) and tens of thousands of hungry cane-cutters who could find work only during the four-or five-month harvest had to work fourteen or fifteen hours a day for an average daily wage...
Central planning of the harvest and scientific agricultural methods have increased the potential sugar yield immensely. When there were thousands of different owners of canefields throughout the island, each landowner would try to get his cane harvested when he could get the greatest profit for himself. This practice usually resulted in bad use of the land and a disastrous harvest every other year. Now that the whole nation's production of sugar is regulated rationally, the only barriers to a higher yield of sugar are caused by Nature. With a hemispheric blockade led by the United States attempting to strangle...
...American team for the world amateur championship this past fall in Santo Domingo (a sports team not widely reported in the U.S. media) and broke out in big smiles when we told them how much we liked Cuba and that we had come to help them in the harvest...