Venceramos Brigade...
I was referring to earlier forced labor in 1965 and 1966 (called UMAP). The government rounded up Cubans who didn’t have their mind right (anti-revolution or those not working) and hauled them off to harvest fruit and cut cane (no volunteers).
Perhaps I should have been clearer in indicating that the Venceramos Brigades knew full and well that native Cubans were forced into the harvesting work, yet all, almost without exception, sang glory hallelujahs praising the communist regime in Cuban. And continue to do so to this day, as well as aligning themselves with the BLM faction.
And the media of the day was complicit in the presentation of them in a positive light.
Thousands of Walter Durantys blossoming to present the leftist slant on the news. Many, such as the lefts highly respected writer I. F. Stone were outright paid prevaricators. The Venona files and other documents reveal the extent of the KGB infiltration and direction of the wests leftists.