The Crisis of the Scissors: The Paradoxes of a Revolution in Progress
In January 1959, the rebels who expelled the dictator Fulgencio Batista came down from the Cuban mountains with their long flowing hair, ample beards and necklaces hung with religious motifs. The image of those who liberated the island by themselves—with an unconventional ideology not found in the dominant doctrines—became an integral part of “The Sixties.” Some understood the Cuban revolution as a subversive …
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