APPENDIX 1

Cross-Referencing Interviews and Listen, Yankee

The following cross-referencing scheme is provided so that selected passages from the interviews in Chapters 4 and 5 can be compared with parallel passages from Listen, Yankee. This intertext cross-referencing takes some excerpts from the transcribed interviews and corresponding excerpts from the book identified by page number(s). They substantiate Mills’s claim that “the facts and the interpretations presented [in Listen, Yankee] … accurately reflect … the views of the Cuban revolutionary. Most of the words are mine—although not all of them” (8).

Interviews		Listen, Yankee
Interview 1 “ARCOCHA: Very bad. I thought …”		“Even back then, some who knew him …” (40)
“ARCOCHA: Exactly. I was convinced … A change of men.”		“The middle class thought …” (61)
“ARCOCHA: [Laughter]. There’s a very popular joke here …”		“In the meantime, let us tell you a little joke …” (102)
“MILLS: Do you think the [presidential] election … won’t change anything.”		“Will your election of a new President for 1961 …” (33).
“MILLS: And what is your considered opinion … of Time magazine?”		“Everyone in the world who isn’t limited to Time Magazine …” (17)
Interview 3 “The education he received had been of coming home … further into debt.”		“Every year to this rural misery and sloth …” (45)
“CAPTAIN 2: And anyone else who sells himself … mercenary.”		“Anyway, now that we’ve got the Russian offer …” (156)
“Although we now have U.S. citizens who have died … stopped these attacks.”		“Planes have flown from your territory to Cuba, …” (64–65)
“CAPTAIN 2: Well, we will cooperate in everything … help can come.”		“Our rebel soldiers—…” (49)
Interview 4 “RIELO: Forty units will form the school city … 8,000 females.”		“But the one thing we are perhaps the proudest of …” (136)
Interview 6 “STETTMEIER: I think it is just a label … helping the Revolution.”		“The old upper classes have lost …” (60)
“STETTMEIER: I think it is just … helping the Revolution.”		“There’s another thing, too, …” (60)
“STETTMEIER: I would say all … destroyed, absolutely.”		“Before the revolution there were no examinations …” (141)
“STETTMEIER: It must be destroyed … can’t do it in a big country.”		“Probably, part of why it works so well …” (124)
Interview 7 “ESCOBAR: Directly, when … after the attack.”		“She was in Santiago when Fidel …” (38)
“ESCOBAR: No. Taking those things … I personally did not go.”		“Now there was a woman living in a house …” (37)
“ESCOBAR: I can’t remember …”		“And then, Fidel landed in 1956 …” (38)
“But no one, not even Fidel, expected … to take flight.”		“There’s one thing about all these defectors …” (55)
“They were afraid because of social laws and of being labeled [communists].”		“As a whole they hadn’t the stomach for revolution …” (43)
“Cuba first, party second.”		“Cuba first, the party second.” (108)
“ESCOBAR: I think that … nobody cares.”		“The Communist Party of Cuba …” (108)
“ESCOBAR: I think that … Not here.”		“First, if every day in the United States …” (109)
“ESCOBAR: Furthermore, the Communist Party … If it were condemned.”		“Second, if the revolutionary Government …” (109)
“They didn’t … taken by the revolutionaries.”		“They had it down on a little card …” (38)
“That saved my life. That was something else to thank Fidel for.”		“How did she get away with it? …” (37)
“ESCOBAR: The people are not apostolic Roman Catholics.… [African] spiritualism.” and “ESCOBAR: Yes. And perhaps … we were leftist and anticlerical.”		“First of all, this religion isn’t very deep, …” (62)
“I was Catholic until … nor the other.” and “ESCOBAR: I was brought up … every day for six years.” and “ESCOBAR: But my son today is not one thing nor another.”		“As far as the more educated people are concerned, …” (62)