ACADEMIES TO PRODUCE MACHO-MEN. FORCED LABOR CAMPS, POLITICS AND SEXUALITY IN CUBA

By 1964, Fidel Castro was boasting of the impact the SMO was having on Cuban youth, and emphasizing the failure of institutions such as the family and school in the education of young people. “All right, then, what they could not teach them at home,” he would declare, “what they could not teach them in school, what they could not teach them at the institute, they learned in the army, they learned in a military unit”...