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Want to understand the Cuban revolution? “Start in Santiago cemetery,” says Nancy Stout

One Day in December: Celia Sánchez and the Cuban Revolution

Recently, Nancy Stout, author of One Day in December: Celia Sánchez and the Cuban Revolution, was interviewed for an article in the Smithsonian magazine, titled, “How Cuba Remembers Its Revolutionary Past and Present”:

By Tony Perrottet; Photographs by João Pina

“…The Cuban Revolution was a dream revolution,” says Nancy Stout…. ‘It didn’t take too long. It worked. And it was filled with these extraordinary, larger-than-life characters.’ As it was unfolding, the outside world was fascinated by the spectacle of a ragtag bunch of self-taught guerrillas, many of them barely out of college, who managed to overthrow one of Latin America’s most brutal dictatorships. ‘It was,’ Stout, ‘like an operetta.’”

Read the article in The Smithsonian.com

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