Foreign Ministers of the Organization of American States (OAS), meeting in Honduras, reached an agreement Tuesday to repeal the 1962 resolution by which excluded Cuba from that body, and correcting a serious historical mistake made 47 years ago.
received the news just as he reviewed a copy of Life magazine in English for 1963
Life in English was a major American magazine. In my teens, despite my early orientation towards socialism, I read with particular interest and sometimes amazement. It was one of the flagship publications of the communication and capitalist propaganda, anti naturally. But he had one great merit: their ideological line was not dogmatic, many of his reports had a stubborn commitment to realistic. His large photographic displays and their stories - when they wanted to be "objective" - \u200b\u200ballowing the reader to see, or at least sensed, realities that exceeded the purpose or the political affiliation of the editors of Life and their mentors.
In the first half of April, 1963 Life released a special edition which offers a unique graphic chronicle from "Castro's Cuba" achieved by the famous French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. On the cover appears a young Fidel Castro guerrilla uniform and a call that says: "The people Cuban seen for the first time since he was subdued. "
Henri Cartier-Bresson was one of the greatest photographers and travel writers of the twentieth century. One of his biographers has described as the "Eye of the Century." Quintessential image hunter, portrayed Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marie Curie, Edith Piaf, Fidel Castro and Ernesto Guevara. He also covered the death of Gandhi and the English Civil War, where he filmed the documentary on the Republican side "Victorie de la vie." He was in the triumphal entry of Mao in Beijing. It was the first Western journalist was able to visit the Soviet Union after the Stalin's death.
now see that it was not mere chance that Life, in the same edition announced for its next issue comprehensive information on the "Top of San José, Costa Rica, where President John F. Kennedy will meet with the heads of state from Central America to address "the threat posed by international communism from Cuba." We dust
that memorable edition of Life in English. I invite you to review and re-read the stunning photographs and comments published by the great reporter in 1963. Verify that documents like this already transcended his age and their immediate circumstances to become now in the Eye of Time.
"If you carry identification signs, the Russians would be more visible than with their plaid shirts and square portfolios. Do not mix much with the exception of Cubans, like U.S. soldiers abroad, when asked cigarettes."
"The machinery of the communist nations draws more attention to the natives of those countries. A Russian coach (center, foreground) explains how funicona a tractor to a group of peasants who still carry style hats cowboys. "
"These girls seem take part in a modern ballet funny and out of the school cafeteria at lunchtime. Many changes, big and small, have occurred in Cuba, among them two very large and deep and are irrevocable: agrarian reform that has divided the large estates on communal farms in many rural workers, although they belong to the State. The other is the multiplication of schools and the dissemination of public education. The flamboyant left school with capacity for 5,000 students is raised in Havana, in a former military camp under Batista ... The government awards thousands of scholarships, and those who have enjoyed a special uniform that indicates their status as scholarship. It is a great work. but schools are also regimented. Students go to school with military step, and even sports are conducted with the strictest discipline. Students learn modern technology, but also receive a steady diet of Marxist theory and choruses, and that's what really assimilated.
"To finance the Russian fuel and machinery, the Cubans have sugar cane. At the time of the precious harvest is persuaded to "volunteer" to go to work several weeks in the reeds, while other "volunteers" working double shifts to fill those vacancies leave. The farmers wanted most was a piece of land. Instead, they have created communal farms, where all work and eat together. There food is plentiful and modern houses are built. "
" Partner of the government of Fidel in Cuba, Ernesto Guevara ("Che"), a man of great intelligence, impetuous and burning eyes seems born to set speed. Had it not been in Cuba would be somewhere else in the world. It is now Minister of Industry. "
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