Well, rich Americans have always been a problem for everyone everywhere, way before there were communists in Cuba.
And seeing how that whole plot was based on the sugar worker revolt that actually happened, I am skeptical of that claim.
Then again, I am not an American, so maybe I am missing American references to their…

No, those weren't the communists. The communists in the 1930s sided with the President. The sugar workers and the army where the ones who revolted.

Dear Experts in the Newbie-Thread, we need to talk.
Thanks for not directly spoiling people and all, but that near-constant, "subtle" hand-holding you are doing is just way creepy. Apparently some of you seem to consider the non-book-readers your personal charges and need to make sure they "get it", but you need to…

I thought it was fairly obvious that she wouldn't have done it if she hadn't thought everyone saw her as a piece of meat already. She kept asking if the others saw it the same way as Pete, as if to make sure that they really didn't see more in her. Roger didn't. Lane didn't. If nobody there sees her as a person, why…

I thought it was fairly obvious that she wouldn't have done it if she hadn't thought everyone saw her as a piece of meat already. She kept asking if the others saw it the same way as Pete, as if to make sure that they really didn't see more in her. Roger didn't. Lane didn't. If nobody there sees her as a person, why…