Word: revolutionize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Home is a rundown walk-up in Old Havana, where filth clings to peeling plaster and the reek of garbage sticks in the throat. Makeshift walls, festooned with frayed electric wires, subdivide the old apartments into tiny windowless warrens. When we arrive early one morning, she is locked behind massive...
After a rare, two-week visit by American journalists to the island, it is apparent the issue is not so simple. Already Fidel Castro's Cuba is no more. Whether he is leading the way or merely acquiescing to it, the socialist Utopia he built is sliding inexorably toward capitalism...
The results are schizophrenic. The government promotes Cubacel, a joint telephone venture with Mexican businessmen -- and the government organizes a new category of medals called Combatants of the Revolution to keep old-think alive. While shops for Cubans stock a few rusted kitchen knives and cardboard toys, shiny Nissans carry...
If they have to change -- and most accept that only reluctantly -- Cubans are determined to change in their own way. No matter where you go on the island, what stratum of society you probe, you hear the same mantra: the achievements of the revolution. What they call the revolution is...
And then there were the slaves. In 1619 the Virginia settler John Rolfe made a diary note of a dark moment in American history. "About the last of August," he wrote, "came in a dutch man of warre that sold us twenty Negars." In Virginia alone, the slave population grew...