Franqui

The CIA, the Cuban Communist party, Moscow, and Fidel's Machiavellianism all combined to destroy and possibility that the kind of nonaligned democratic socialism that Franqui dreamed of would emerge in Cuba.

Inside the Revolution Leiken, Robert S. 1984

Franqui makes it clear that Washington's imperial reactions to the revolution poisoned the air.

Inside the Revolution Leiken, Robert S. 1984

With Franqui was most of the July 26 movement, which organized the underground resistance in 1959 and got the votes of more than 90 percent of the delegates in the first postrevolutionary trade union elections.

Inside the Revolution Leiken, Robert S. 1984

Franqui, in fact, has little more to say about the actual conditions of those "below."

Inside the Revolution Leiken, Robert S. 1984

As Franqui writes, he "decided to be in and out at the same time."

Inside the Revolution Leiken, Robert S. 1984

Franqui recalls that he then "tried out my own game on him."

Inside the Revolution Leiken, Robert S. 1984

Nicaragua today is in many ways different from the Cuba described by Franqui.

Inside the Revolution Leiken, Robert S. 1984

The latter had been approached by the CIA but it was certainly not its tool; it was, Franqui writes,

Inside the Revolution Leiken, Robert S. 1984

But Franqui lends no support to those who believe US policy was solely responsible for Cuba's alignment with the USSR.

Inside the Revolution Leiken, Robert S. 1984

Franqui was with Castro during his first military adventure, the attempt to liberate Santo Domingo from Trujillo in 1947; he became one of his closest associates after the unsuccessful storming of the Moncada barracks in 1953, and collaborated with him during his Mexican exile and in the Sierra Maestra.

Inside the Revolution Leiken, Robert S. 1984