A coda for Cuba
For five decades, Cuba has stood against the superpower that subjugated the rest of Latin America
Looking back now at the old black-and-white film images of the period brings back the world of school, the excitement in the class as we followed the momentous events, the well-marked map of Cuba and Florida on the classroom wall. Television was in its infancy in 1959, but the Cuban revolution was box-office.
It was all like a rock opera: Fidel and Che, the great hairy icons, marching down with their tiny tank ...
