Some Areas to Cover (There will be much more).

•El Teatro de la Revolucion y sus periodicos. Shows y “Puesta en Escena”.
•La manipulacion de los hechos por ambas partes.
•EL comienzo: El oportunismo politico.
•“Clarity and purity are not identical concerns, nor do they call forth similar forms of motive and commitment. While clarity is a matter of cognition, purity is a matter of moral coherence” (Appadurai, 915). Use this concept to explain the necessity of demonizing and excoriating Cubans leaving to the USA as “gusanos”.
•Demonization of subjects gives way to a change in affection for part of the group or other individuals. Political labels such as ‘landlord’, ‘class enemy’, and ‘counterrevolutionary’ become powerful bearers of affect, and how… verbal propaganda and mass-mediated images can literally turn ordinary faces into abominations that must be destroyed” (Appadurai, 916). This explain the use of verbal violence and degradation during Mariel and subsequents “actos de repudio”; the uses of name calling and branding in the press such as “las ratas abandonan el barco” –the rats leave the ship—when a prominent cultural figure decides to defect to another country. I.e. trumpet player Arturo Sandoval news of defection by official newspaper Gramma in the year …).