Raising White and Christian Armies
(Excerpt from forthcoming Blood and Faith, Volume 2. Volume 1 is here.) I wrote my doctoral dissertation about President Machado of Cuba ( It is online if you want to see it). Cuba went from a self-sufficient nation to a collapsing country with a power vacuum that led to the rise of Fidel Castro. President Machado — who was legally elected twice — faced a rising tide of domestic discontent as sugar prices collapsed (it was their main industry). The…