By Enrique Oltuski
ISBN-10: 0787961698
ISBN-13: 9780787961695
Vida Clandestina is the 1st U.S. e-book of the dramatic memoir of an incredible Cuban innovative who led a perilous double lifestyles from 1952 to1959. knowledgeable at collage of Miami, then a high-ranking supervisor and engineer for Shell Oil, Enrique Oltuski used to be additionally a pace-setter within the city guerilla twenty sixth of July move in Havana and Santa Clara, risking his existence to hitch forces with Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, and dealing on the maximum point of the Cuban govt within the forty-three years for the reason that.
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Batista shook us all out of our haze. Of course, overthrowing Batista is only a start: we must go farther to establish the social justice Professor García Barcena describes. ” His voice was smooth and warm in the tepid light of that room. “Our direction is clear: no playing politics, no compromising. Only armed revolution can give us the power we want. Chap2 7/3/02 11:30 AM Page 21 First Revolutionary Impulses besides, to succeed in Cuba you need a gun in your hand. ” He reached into his bag, pulled out a pamphlet, and handed it to me.
The war is basically over and the revolution triumphant. Batista and his cronies flee the country by airplane after celebrating New Year’s Eve, December 31, 1958. He takes with him an estimated $300 million. | Fidel Castro arrives in Havana on January 8. During an evening speech at an old fortress before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of hysterically happy people, two white doves alight on his shoulder. The honeymoon is brief. S. S. companies own 80 to 100 percent of Cuba’s utilities, mines, cattle ranches, and oil refineries; 40 percent of the sugar industry; and 50 percent of the public railways.
I would spend the day in bed, reading the many books I had acquired over the course of the year. Afterward I would start going out, visiting my friends. We would spend evenings in the park, talking about a thousand things: school, politics, girls. Then a month in Varadero: the beach and nights at the Bolera. And what was I doing here? Whatever possessed me to go to school in the North? How could I have left Cuba! Chap1 7/3/02 11:24 AM Page 6 Vida Clandestina The bell rang. I packed up my drafting tools, rolled up the drawings, and went down the stairs.
Vida Clandestina: My Life in the Cuban Revolution by Enrique Oltuski
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