Word: internationalistic
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...revolution, like its leader, is facing middle age. Castro and his comrades are afraid that the youth, untested in struggle and cosseted by the socialist state, will grow up soft and complacent. Officials in Havana say frankly that one reason for sending young Cubans on what they call "internationalist missions" to Angola, Ethiopia and other embattled Third World countries is to give them a taste of the way their elders fought against the government troops of Dictator Fulgencio Batista in the 1950s and against U.S.-backed invaders at the Bay of Pigs...
...this easiness may bring about a certain weakness." Then, getting in a dig at Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communists, Rodriguez adds: "We don't believe in solving this problem with a cultural revolution, parading people around with dunce caps on their heads. We believe that internationalist tasks help the revolution because they are important in the political character-building and moral mobilization of our youth." Cuban propaganda on posters and radio broadcasts stresses youth-and youthful militancy...
...islands of São Toméand Principe, a Democratic Republic that was once a Portuguese colony. There are Cuban engineering teams all over the continent. In Angola, nearly 800 Cuban teachers are running makeshift schools under the impressive banner of "The Che Guevara Internationalist Pedagogical Detachment." More Peace Corps than Afrika Korps, most of the teachers are barely out of secondary school themselves. Their average age is 19, and they are paid just 30 pesos (about $40) a month...
...eternal lover of peace," proclaimed Victor Álvarez, a fourth-year economics major. "But as a human being I cannot aspire to live in peace while there are people throughout the world who do not have that privilege. Therefore I stand ready to fulfill my moral commitment to extend internationalist aid to any underdeveloped country that may need it and request...
Eleven years later, in the post-World War II era, some American politicians and citizens felt differently. For some, American isolationism was replaced by a more internationalist commitment to preserve global security and peace. John Cowles Jr., on Class Day, June 1951, had a different message from Gardiner for his classmates...