Word: revolutionize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Born to poor farmers in central Cuba, Rodriguez credits the revolution with improving her life. As one of 12 brothers and sisters on a marginal farm in the 1950s, she almost never ate meat. Her brothers worked the sugarcane fields three months a year, then the family virtually starved the...
Educated by the revolution and promoted from one government job to another, working her way up from seamstress to manager of an arts-and-crafts factory, Rodriguez still keeps a big photo of Cienfuegos on the wall. "I believe in the revolution. I have confidence in the revolution," she says...
Considering that monthly government rations barely provide enough food for two weeks and a month's salary buys just one chicken on the black market, it is surprising how many Cubans still have faith in Castro's revolution. Domestic production is nearly nil. Unemployment is estimated at 20% to 25...
Yet capitalism must move beyond such rudiments if Castro's regime is to survive. Even faithful party members believe the time for thoroughgoing change has come, though they fear the economic anarchy of postcommunist Eastern Europe. "It's a difficult moment," admits Manuel Gutierrez, who was born in 1959, the...
Like many of his University of Havana friends, Gutierrez runs a new venture in Cuba with little government control: in his case, ecotourism tours for Costa Rica's LACSA airline. "Now the young have a chance for their own revolution, a revolution in the economy, a revolution in service," he...