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The Latino Diaspora in the United States: Sojourns from a Cuban Past

The Latino Diaspora in the United States: Sojourns from a Cuban Past uba stands today as the last diehard socialist state, caught in an apparently anachronistic Cold War impasse between Fidel Castro and the Cuban community of Miami. The possibilities of a once-promising revolution for the working class, the thirty-year-old economic blockade by the United States, the collapse of the Soviet Union, an unusual and intractable caudillo in power for thirty-four years, a dawning but daunting new world order, and the call for a postmodem ending of ideology -all seem to conflate in this small island with particularly contradictory intensity. How and when will it change, and into what? Will the current repressive dictatorship survive much longer? Will it continue to jail dissidents, and even execute possible opposition leaders, such as General Arnaldo Ochoa in 1989? Is the Cuban exile community of one million a cultural monolith waiting to return after thirty-four years of exile or will it become another, though perhaps reluctant, component of the growing Latino community in the United States?* Can the capital and dreams of Cuban exiles reinsert themselves into a post-Castro Cuba without another Bay of Pigs? Is there a Nicaraguan-type middle ground, or some other alternative lurking on the horizon of the Clinton era? http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Public Culture Duke University Press

The Latino Diaspora in the United States: Sojourns from a Cuban Past

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Public Culture , Volume 6 (2) – Jan 1, 1994
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Duke University Press
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Copyright 1994 by Duke University Press
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0899-2363
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10.1215/08992363-6-2-293
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uba stands today as the last diehard socialist state, caught in an apparently anachronistic Cold War impasse between Fidel Castro and the Cuban community of Miami. The possibilities of a once-promising revolution for the working class, the thirty-year-old economic blockade by the United States, the collapse of the Soviet Union, an unusual and intractable caudillo in power for thirty-four years, a dawning but daunting new world order, and the call for a postmodem ending of ideology -all seem to conflate in this small island with particularly contradictory intensity. How and when will it change, and into what? Will the current repressive dictatorship survive much longer? Will it continue to jail dissidents, and even execute possible opposition leaders, such as General Arnaldo Ochoa in 1989? Is the Cuban exile community of one million a cultural monolith waiting to return after thirty-four years of exile or will it become another, though perhaps reluctant, component of the growing Latino community in the United States?* Can the capital and dreams of Cuban exiles reinsert themselves into a post-Castro Cuba without another Bay of Pigs? Is there a Nicaraguan-type middle ground, or some other alternative lurking on the horizon of the Clinton era?

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Public Culture – Duke University Press

Published: Jan 1, 1994

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