Abstract
Chapter 5 traces the renewal of the revolutionary pact to rebuild Mazorra after 1959, this time under the auspices of Dr. Eduardo Bernabé Ordaz, personally selected by Fidel Castro to direct the hospital. This round of reconstruction at the newly baptized Hospital Psiquiátrico de La Habana finally reestablished the unity between hospital and state that had come undone during the preceding decades. Under Ordaz’s leadership, however, broader revolutionary trends and tensions inevitably came to bear, including a conflicted attitude toward patient labor and homosexuality, even as the director’s Catholic faith and anti-Communist disposition established Mazorra as a unique space within the revolutionary project.
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