“You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” This famous quote, attributed to US President Lincoln, occupied an unlikely place in 1960s Cuba: unanimity—the opposite of pluralism, let alone democracy–had been an officially required condition for inclusion in the Revolution since at least 1961. Communist Party censors might have ascribed irony to the “foolishness” of those who believed in the United States’ democracy, but its applicability to Cuba’s Communist dictatorship was also deeply ironic. Eduardo “Guayo” Hernández Collection, Smathers Libraries, University of Florida
