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By Anita Casavantes Bradford

for the reason that 1959, the Cuban progressive executive has proudly proclaimed that "the revolution is for the children." Many Cuban american citizens reject this declare, saying that they selected exile within the usa to guard their young children from the evils of "Castro-communism." Anita Casavantes Bradford's research of the pivotal years among the Revolution's triumph and the 1962 Missile quandary uncovers how and while childrens have been first pressed into political carrier through ideologically adversarial Cuban groups on either side of the Florida Straits.

Casavantes Bradford argues that, in Havana, the Castro govt deployed a morally charged "politics of early life" to lead a nationalist and reformist revolution towards socialism. even as, Miami exile leaders placed little ones on the center of efforts to mobilize competition to Castro's regime and to hyperlink the health and wellbeing of Cuban refugees to U.S. chilly battle international coverage pursuits. Casavantes Bradford concludes that the 1999 Elian Gonzalez custody conflict used to be the main infamous contemporary manifestation of the continuing fight to outline and keep an eye on Cuban early life, revealing the continual centrality of youngsters to Cuban politics and nationwide identity.

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