Abstract:
Every time I’m asked about Cuba and Fidel Castro, I always say it’s complicated. It’s not an easy question for someone like me. I lived most of my life in Chile but was born in Cuba in the eighties – the best time of the socialist Cuba, a decade in which resources were plentiful and everything was distributed equally. And when I say everything, I mean all those things that I had access to because I had the luck of being born in that poor little island in the middle of the Caribbean where Marx would never have imagined a socialist utopia could be established. On that island there was no industrial development or proletariat, but peasants who worked the land. The oligarchs owned the land and the revolution drove them out and their privileges were redistributed to the entire population. A revolutionary utopia of great scope, of which my parents and I were among the beneficiaries.
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