Just weeks after the U.S. kidnapped the Venezuelan President and First Lady in a flagrantly illegal military campaign against Venezuela, Donald Trump issued an Executive Order designating Cuba as “an unusual and extraordinary threat” to the U.S. Both acts are part of an escalating imperialist offensive against the sovereignty of Latin American states and both work directly against the interests of working and oppressed people in the U.S.
At this month’s Liberation Flicks, hosted by PSL Indianapolis, we’ll find out some of the reasons why the U.S. government continues its more than 60-year long campaign to overthrow the Cuban Revolution.
Join us for a screening of “Maestra,” a documentary about the historic National Literacy Campaign of 1961. That year, hundreds of thousands of Cuban people, many of them youth from Havana, volunteered to eliminate illiteracy. Through archival footage and interviews with the “Brigadistas,” we’ll get a glimpse of how within a single year Cuba’s literacy rate went from 24 percent to 96.1 percent, making it one of the most literate countries in the world. This is the kind of social transformation and popular empowerment the Cuban Revolution inaugurated and one of the many reasons why Cuba continues to inspire the world today.
Featured photo: The cover of Maestra with a background of Brigadistas marching in a May Day Parade in Havana. Credit: Public Domain.