Word: revolutionize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The mine workers in the mountain town of El Cobre, west of Santiago de Cuba in Oriente province, where the revolution was born, are afraid of the dreamers in Havana. Oh, yes, Cuba needs to change, says a 57-year-old welder we'll call Alberto. "But we need something...
The advent of the dollar has brought dismay even to the party faithful. Riding in an aging Lada to the countryside to buy food, a loyal government employee gripes, "We felt betrayed. Legalizing the dollar favors people who kept ties to their families in Miami, people who were not dedicated...
He feels no remorse about cheating a government that he believes has failed him by its lies and mistakes. "First you have to guarantee food, then you guarantee health and education," says Octavio. "Their priorities are backward. They spend on sports! You can't eat sports." Yet this son of...
Exiles who dream of a revolution from below would despair. Many of the Cubans we meet show no interest in politics, nor do they talk about a political solution to their country's problems. But not because this is a nation of devout communists: "Most people became revolutionary not from...
The Broken Chain, which debuts a week later, goes back a century earlier to the confederacy of six Iroquois tribes, an alliance that was shattered by conflicting loyalties during the American Revolution. The focus again is on a legendary rebel -- Joseph Brant (Eric Schweig), an Iroquois warrior educated in English...