In her new book, Exporting Revolution, Margaret Randall explores the Cuban Revolution's impact on the outside world, tracing Cuba's international outreach in health care, disaster relief, education, literature, art, liberation struggles, and sports. Randall combines personal observations and interviews with literary analysis and examinations of political trends in order to understand what compels a small, poor, and underdeveloped country to offer its resources and expertise. Why has the Cuban health care system trained thousands of foreign doctors, offered free services, and responded to health crises around the globe? What drives Cuba's international adult literacy programs? Why has Cuban poetry had an outsized influence in the Spanish-speaking world? This multifaceted internationalism, Randall finds, is not only one of the Revolution's most central features; it helped define Cuban society long before the Revolution.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix
1. How These Ideas Took Shape 1
2. Talent and Influence beyond Numbers 22
3. Cuba by Cuba 42
4. The Island 56
5. Cuban Solidarity: Africa 69
6. Cuban Solidarity: Latin America 83
7. Internationalism, Cuban Style 98
8. Emilio in Angoloa 111
9. Nancy in Ethiopia 122
10. Laidi in Zambia 135
11. Educating New Men and Women, Globally 144
12. Cuban Health Care: A Model That Works 159
13. Cuban Health Means World Health 171
14. Sports for Everyone 192
15. What I Learned 205
Notes 223
Bibliography 245
Index 249
