Padilla affair

Although Padilla initially supported the revolution led by Fidel Castro, by the late 1960s he began to criticize it openly and in 1971 he was imprisoned by the Cuban government.

[3][4][5] A series of articles were posted in Verde Olivo, the magazine of the armed forces, under the name Leopaldo Avila, prompting a stricter outline of the government's cultural policy.

[5] Writer José Lorenzo Fuentes had already been removed from the UNEAC in 1967 for his critical work and alleged contact with Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and according to Otero, Padilla saw this scandal as an opportunity to receive foreign attention.

To illustrate the trivial nature of revolutionary vigilance, one of the charges brought against Fuera del juego was Padilla's conception of history, where he described time as a circle.

[1] The confession raised concerns that the Cuban government had begun to stage events reminiscent to the Moscow trials of Joseph Stalin.

"[1] The affair stirred a schism among political critics across the world, bringing many who had previously supported the Fidel Castro government to reconsider their position.