Revolutionary Love in Martí and Guevara

Abstract

Cuban journalist Mirta Rodríguez Calderón, writing in the United States in 1995 about the severe economic crisis in Cuba, said it is impossible to understand Cuba without understanding what it means to believe in Guevara’s “new man” (Rodríguez Calderón 1995). She doesn’t say people have to realize the idea. Rather she says something important is lost in not having believed in it.¹