Today’s Young Leftists Care More About Chile than Cuba
Gender and the rights of minorities are taking precedence over iconic figures of the past century.
SÃO PAULO – I was in for a surprise when I asked politically engaged university students and young political activists in Brazil how they felt about the recent upheaval in Cuba. "The whole debate about Cuba is like a caricature, I don't really think it's interesting," one replied. Contrary to my experience of when I started teaching more than a decade ago, the majority had not even paid much attention to events there — despite self-identifying as being on the left of the ideological spectrum. While all opposed the U.S. embargo against the island, most did not consider Cuba to...
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