“The Revolution, after discovering that it had confused the knife with the assassin, turned sugar, which had been responsible for underdevelopment, into an instrument of development. There was no alternative, born of Cuba's incorporation into the world market, to break the spine of that monoculture and dependence.”
Eduardo Hughes Galeano
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
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