Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America: An Oral History

by Dirk Kruijt

The Cuban revolution served as a rallying cry to people across Latin America and the Caribbean. The revolutionary regime has provided vital support to the rest of the region, offering everything from medical and development assistance to training and advice on guerrilla warfare.

Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America is the first oral history of Cuba's liberation struggle. Drawing on a vast array of original testimonies, Dirk Kruijt looks at the role of both veterans and the post-Revolution fidelista generation in shaping Cuba and the Americas.

Featuring the testimonies of over sixty Cuban officials and former combatants, Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America offers unique insight into a nation which, in spite of its small size and notional pariah status, remains one of the most influential countries in the Americas.

304 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2017

About the author

Dirk Kruijt is Professor of Development Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University. For many years he served as a development diplomat and policy advisor in Central America. He has been a visiting professor at several universities in the UK and in Brasil and Mexico, the Andean countries and Central America. His research includes urban poverty, informality and social exclusion; the military and democracy; political conflict and post-war reconstruction in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Reviews

[Adriana Sierra Leal · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book certainly contains a wealth of information and draws on case studies from a diversity of countries in Latin America, however, this information is presented in a way that lacks a narrative and reads more as a superficial list of important dates, acronyms, and events, without exploring any of them in more depth. More importantly, the book fails to deliver what was promised: oral histories.

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

Una analisis honesta y reveladora sobre el papel de la revolución cubana en la historia de los pueblos de las Américas

[Mills College Library]

972.9106 K944 2017