Guerrillerismo in the Shadows, 1980–1989
Guerrillerismo in the Shadows, 1980–1989
By examining the official discourse of the Cuban Revolution in the 1980s, this chapter paints a more complex picture of the decade than has commonly been portrayed in the literature. Far from being a time in which the Revolution was subsumed by its adherence to the Soviet model, the tracing of the relative absence or presence of guerrillerismo demonstrates that the 1980s was a decade of shifting ideological currents, a decade in which the use of a guerrilla rhetoric served different functions at different points. This chapter argues that one such function in the late 1980s (as well as in other decades), was to undermine the proliferation of a “siege mentality.”
Keywords: 1980s, Siege mentality, Soviet, Discourse, Guerrillerismo, Cuban Revolution, Guerrilla
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