How Fidel Castro Invented the Euro Step: A Brief Oral History

Frederick Dyson, biographer of Cuban author Jose Marti: While Marti was not known as a fan of sports, he would occasionally employ metaphors from the athletic world in order to make his arguments and treatises more accessible to the common worker he cared so deeply about. In one of his early works, he wrote of the need for cunning by revolutionaries in order to evade imprisonment, likening their movements to how some footballers may step in one direction, leading their opponent to believe that they have shown their hand, but then immediately pivot, moving forward, but in the opposite direction as before. While Marti was of course referring to the guerrilla tactics necessary for revolutionary action, its impact was far more wide-ranging than that. Castro’s admiration for and desire to emulate Marti is well known so it should not surprise us that this admiration was not merely political. It is widely believed that this aforementioned passage is the one that, whether consciously or unconsciously, came to Castro’s mind as he invented what should really be called the Cuba Step. <a href="https://medium.com/the-shocker/how-fidel-castro-invented-the-euro-step-a-brief-oral-history-1a68c25a4965">Visit Now</a>