“Fidel invited Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir to visit Cuba again, and they did, but this time they weren’t so entranced. ‘Havana had changed; no more nightclubs, no more gambling, and more more American tourists; in the half empty Nacional Hotel, some very young members of the militia, boys and girls, were holding a conference. On every side, in the streets, the militia was drilling,’ de Beauvoir wrote. The atmosphere was tense with rumors of invasion, and a notable air of repressive uniformity was seeping into Cuban life. When Sartre and de Beauvoir asked workers at a clothing mill how they lives had benefited from the revolution, a union leader quickly stepped forward to speak on their behalf, parroting the government’s dogma. “
Posted on: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 20:10:43 +0000
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