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Zoe Bran has always been fascinated by the gap between the ideals of the world's socialist countries and the arduous hand-to-mouth struggles of the people who live in them. Castro's Cuba is one of the last places on earth. Seeking to understand the reality of Cuba today, Zoe travels the length of this beautiful island. Beneath the surface of music and dancing, cockfights and animal sacrifice, she finds a land of complex ambiguities: a fertile land where many hunger; an educated country with scant knowledge of the outside world; a nation exhausted by socialism but proud of its independence and history of revolutionary struggle. From Havana to the pastoral hinterland, Zoe talks with writers and artists, with expatriates, with committed revolutionaries and those desperate to escape abroad. Enduring Cuba presents a kaleidoscope of Cuba and its people, whose tenacity and endurance is at once astonishing and humbling.
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Michael Bombara
reviewed Enduring Cuba on May 08, 2013
Enduring Cuba
Debate has ranged over this and the author's occasionally supercilious attitude towards other tourists grates on occasion, but this pretty much tallied with my own view of Cuba after a visit there back in 2008. In short, it's a balanced view, acknowledging the tremendous strides that have been made but suggesting that Cuba hasn't, after all this, really worked.
The embargo hasn't helped and given that the only fair comparisons are with nations such as Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Castro's boys have perhaps performed pretty well, but the number of jobless is astonishing and the economy dysfunctional however much Lefties like myself wish it were not.
High points include tales of mafia goings-on in the early Fifties, an evocative description of Santiago de Cuba (a far more African city than Havana), the extraordinary music and the frankly diabolical food. It's all rather decently written too.
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