The Real Fidel Castro
 

The Real Fidel Castro

by Leycester Coltman

Rhetoric during and after the Cold War years has painted starkly contrasting portraits of Cuba’s Fidel Castro: an unblemished idealist on the one hand, a ruthless dictator on the other. This insightful book, the most intimate and dispassionate biography of the revolutionary leader to date, shows that neither assessment is true.
Leycester Coltman, British ambassador to Cuba in the early... (read more)

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tali b
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I don't know why he gets such a bad rap, Fidel is great! We are just mad b/c we can't control his little island. Favorite quote, when asked by a frenchman what will happen when he dies : 'I'll go to hell. The heat will be unbearable. But the pain won't be as bad as expecting too much from heaven, which always breaks it's promises. When I arrive in hell, I'll meet Marx, Engels and Lenin. And you too, by the way, because capitalists also go to hell, especially when they enjoy life too...

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