HAVANA — There was a moment in history when Cuba was a beacon for the Latin American left. A now remote past when the Plaza of the Revolution was a beacon for the dozens of progressive movements that crossed the continent. "The island where utopia triumphed," many thought, the place that showed the way for revolutionaries and idealists everywhere.
Those were the days when young people kept posters of Fidel Castro in their rooms, believing that the dreams of so many years of proletarian struggle had come to fruition in the Caribbean. Our cultural centers filled with writers and artists, born from the Río Bravo all the way to Patagonia. And some of those who would later become the region's political leaders came to study in schools across the country.
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