Cuban socialism and personality cult

Abstract

Since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, its adversaries developed
a large literary industry (articles, books and videos) with the aim of
attacking, assaulting and defaming it; among the accusations they made, was
that in Cuba the cult of Fidel Castro's personality was promoted. The purpose
of this article is to analyze if the cult of personality existed or exists in Cuban
socialism. For that, it was resorted to some investigations made by journalists,
historians and writers; also to the testimonies of different personalities,
many of them foreign to politics and the Cuban Revolution, but who have
been on the island, knowing it. The results of the article indicate that there is
no evidence to sustain that Cuban socialism practiced or practices the cult of
personality; the government from the beginning not only did not allow it or
promote it, but it also prohibited it and fought against it. And that Fidel Castro
himself until the last days of his life, rejected that, even after his death,
his name or his image was used for these purposes.