Ten Million Ton Harvest

And it's true that there was a sense, right, that as leftists and activists in the belly of the beast, as they like to say, they felt like they had to contribute meaningfully to building the revolution.

In the case of those first contingents of the Venceremos Brigade, they felt like they had to contribute to the Zafra de los Diez Millones, which was this goal that Fidel Castro set to harvest 10 million tons of sugar, which they fell short on.

But there was this fervor and there was this euphoria around building the revolution.

These days, there's none of that.