As the lights go out, Cuba’s true believers gather to celebrate the revolution
Proud and defiant in the rolling blackouts, thousands come together to mark the 1953 raid seen as the first step to Fidel Castro taking powerIn the dark before dawn, Juan Victor Hernández Campo was cheerleading a 5,000-strong crowd in the outskirts of the Cuban provincial capital of Pinar del Rio. “Aquí, quien no salte es yanqui!” he roared. “If you don’t jump, you’re a Yankee!”Those in front of him, in T-shirts commemorating Fidel and Raúl Castro’s 1953 attack on the…
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