Castro's Final Hour
 

Castro's Final Hour

by Andres Oppenheimer

Reported from inside Cuba by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Andres Oppenheimer, Castro's Final Hour chronicles the dramatic events that have crippled the more-than-three-decades-old Marxist regime of Fidel Castro. From the execution of the country's most celebrated Army general in 1989 to the devastating effects of the loss of all Soviet aid, the picture Oppenheimer paints is extraordinarily... (read more)

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I'm writing this just a few days past when Castro announced his retirement, so this book's timing was off by about 15 years on Castro's final hour. Despite that, it's a very well written history of Cuba and it's ruthless dictator.

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