Sartre in Cuba, Cuba in Sartre

Explores Sartre's engagement with the Cuban Revolution.

In early 1960 Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir accepted the invitation to visit Cuba and to report on the revolution.

They arrived during the carnival in a land bursting with revolutionary activity.

They visited Che Guevara, head of the National Bank.

They toured the island with Fidel Castro. They met ministers, journalists, students, writers, artists, dockers and agricultural workers.

Sartre spoke at the University of Havana. Sartre later published his Cuba reports in France-Soir.

Sartre endorsed the Cuban Revolution. He made clear his political identification. He opposed colonialism. He saw the US as colonial in Cuban affairs from 1898.

He supported Fidel Castro. He supported the agrarian reform. He supported the revolution.