The 1968 Film Memories of Underdevelopment Would Probably Make Marco Rubio Cry

Revisiting a film about why intellectuals are lousy revolutionaries.by Charles MudedeMemories of Underdevelopment has a scene near its beginning that the Republican senator Marco Rubio might find moving. It dramatizes the values that have helped Rubio rise to the upper ranks of a political party that rewards the most heartless Americans, the GOP.The scene is set in 1961. It's two years after the Cuban Revolution put Fidel Castro into power. A youngish man named Sergio is standing in Havana's air