Escuelas en tiempos de cambio:

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For more than half a century, Cuba has suffered one of the longest-running dictatorships in history, where dozens of political prisoners are held in prison, and the entire population is locked up in a large penitentiary where neither dissent nor disagreement is forgiven, and the dissidents are punished with years in prison or death. It is a new oligarchic class, with a single political party, without elections, with an absolute disregard for Human Rights, without public and civil liberties, making it illegal to be part of the political opposition, with public education in the exclusive hands...

Elena Garro marchó a España en 1937, a sus 17 años, para asistir al Congreso Internacional en Defensa de la Cultura. Sus recuerdos del Congreso, sus visitas al frente de batalla, las anécdotas de sus compañeros de delegación (Octavio Paz, Juan de la Cabada, Silvestre Revueltas, Fernando Gamboa, Mancisidor, Chávez Morado, etc.) convierten su libro en un relato delicioso en el que con aparente ingenuidad adolescente penetra en no pocos problemas importantes proyectados sobre el trasfondo del heroísmo español republicano.

Escrita por un español, con pasión pero con la suficiente ecuanimidad como para exponer los claroscuros de nuestro pasado.