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About Neill W. Macaulay Jr.
- Neill W.
- Macaulay Jr.
- PhD (April 10, 1935 in South Carolina – October 28, 2007 in Micanopy, Florida) was a writer, professor and a former lieutenant in Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement Army. Prof.
- Macaulay was a graduate of the University of Texas and The Citadel and served two years with the U.S.
- Army in the Korean War where he managed the PX.
- After his army service, Macaulay joined the Cuban Revolution in 1958, to overthrow Fulgencio Batista.
- As Castro's forces closed in on Havana, in December 1958 Macaulay started training firing squads and was promoted to lieutenant.
- Members of Macaulay's unit included Rafael del Pino, who became chief of Cuba's air force, but later defected.
- After the revolution, Cuba gave Macaulay a tomato farm and he profitably shipped one crop to Pompano Beach, Florida.
- However, in 1961, when Castro announced intentions to control exports, he left for the U.S.
- where he had to fight a legal battle to retain his U.S.
- citizenship.Macaulay then earned a doctorate from the University of Texas and began teaching at the University of Florida (1964-1986) where he became known as an expert in Latin American history.
- He retired from teaching in 1986. Macaulay authored The Sandino Affair (1967) (a study of Nicaraguan resistance to U.S.
- occupation in the 1920-30s), A Rebel in Cuba (1970), The Prestes Column (1974) and Dom Pedro: the struggle for liberty in Brazil and Portugal, 1798–1834 (1986, ISBN 978-0-8223-0681-8).
- He co-authored with David Bushnell The Emergence of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century (1988, 2nd: 1994, ISBN 0195084020).
- He returned to Cuba in 1991, after being repeatedly denied entry by the Castro government.
- He later made various other trips as an academic.
- Macaulay's experiences in Cuba helped inspire two documentaries Cuba: A Lifetime of Passion (2007) and Patria o Muerte (still in production).
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