Word: raul
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...Raul remembers, "I saw how these people, even though they had difficulties like being old and finding it hard to learn, all of them had an intense interest. As the weeks passed, their expressions changed, like they were waking up from a long sleep...
...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...
Like the political direction of the Revolution, the political outlook of the eight was vague at the time. Raul's father was a member of the old Communist Party, and "he always tried to make us see communist ideas. The first day of the triumph of the Revolution my brother and I went out into the streets with the flag of the 26th of July movement and celebrated. But the general idea was hatred of the dictatorship; I didn't have very much of an idea at that time of what else the Revolution meant...
...Carlos immediately went to work in the new government. For many of the rest, real work in the Revolution began in 1961, with the literacy campaign, Lazara, Raul, and Juanito were among the thousands of teenagers who went to the countryside to teach the peasants to read and write. So was Alberto's sister, and his mother worked in the campaign as well. Carlos helped to administer...
...sometimes called El Enano (the dwarf) because he stands only 5 ft. 3 in.-is the grand old man of Latin America's democratic left. In the small band of democratic reformers (including Venezuela's Romulo Betancourt. the Dominican Republic's Juan Bosch, Peru's Raul Haya de la Torre) who only recently seemed to be Latin America's best hope for nonviolent change, he remains one of the few effective survivors...