Word: pedro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Their youth was dominated by the resistance to Batista. Carlos went to the mountains to join the Rebel Army, and fought under Raul Castro. Pedro carried messages for his father, who was a member of the revolutionary underground of peasants in Havana province. Alberto took part in student strikes...
Juan was in the process of joining the militia. "We knew the U.S. was planning something, and by then I had gained enough consciousness to get an idea of what was going on." Pedro was too young to join the regular forces; once again he was entrusted with carrying messages. Alberto was already in a militia unit, which was later called to active duty...
...more, students do not form an elite group, shut off from the people who work, as they do in the U.S. As long as there is manual labor in agriculture, it will be shared by students, technicians, planners, everyone. Lazara has worked in ten harvests, Hugo in eight. Pedro in five. Alberto thinks the volunteer work he did plating eucalyptus trees was even harder than cane-cutting. "It wasn't planting the trees that was so hard-it was digging the holes...
...Pedro drives a truck for eight hours during the day and studies for three hours at night. In 1972 he will go to the university to study medicine. When he becomes a doctor, he will make the same salary as truck-drivers. Like all doctors, he will spend the first two years in the countryside...
...Political development is part and parcel of this process of life and work. When the Cubans speak of political development, they are not talking only about learning to support a socialist economy or to oppose imperialism. As Lazara explained, that part came automatically, Pedro says, "I always supported the Revolutionary laws as they were created, and my father taught me to understand them, so there was nothing complicated about becoming a socialist." He also saw that the bourgeoisie and the American corporations did not support the laws which diminished their profits. Fidel came to Pedro's school and his workplace...