Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The government built four boarding schools for Angolan and Mozambican teen-agers on the Isle of Pines off the south coast of Cuba. At one of the schools, named after Angolan President Agostinho Neto, a class of uniformed children, many of them war orphans, greet "comrade visitors" by snapping to...
In late July and early August, Havana will be host to 16,000 Communist and left-wing students from around the world (including 400 Americans) at a World Youth Festival dedicated to the theme of "anti-imperialist solidarity." Brigades of volunteers from the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution...
Cuban officials insist that both the civilian and military personnel in Africa are volunteers. Maybe so, but a young Cuban faces a formidable battery of social and governmental pressures to answer the call "Comrade Fidel wants you." A Havana resident described how authorities picked volunteers in the small town where...
"It is considered a great merit to have participated in an internationalist mission," says Filipe Suárez, 48, a C.D.R. official. "It is understood that someone who gives up a year or so of his life to help in Africa will be guaranteed his old job back." More to...
The financial cost of that involvement is underwritten almost entirely by the Soviet Union (see box). And not just young men apply for African duty. Says Vilma Espin, 46, head of the Federation of Cuban Women and wife of Fidel's brother, Defense Minister Raul Castro: "At the height...