Cuban Socialism and the Congress for Cultural Freedom

The Congress for Cultural Freedom was a CIA backed publication that targeted Latin America in the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution. The magazine's goal here was to appear as a mediating space where left-wingers could contribute in appraisals of Cuban socialism when in fact it was a CIA front. Pablo Neruda, the Communist poet who only a few years earlier had been the subject of a CCF campaign to undermine his candidacy for the Nobel Prize, contributed several poems. There are interviews with Carlos Fuentes and Jorge Luis Borges; fiction from Jose Donoso and Guillermo Cabar Infante.