The post-war worlds longest-serving and most storied head of state presents a compelling chronicle of his life. Drawing on more than 100 hours of interviews and including never-before-seen photographs, this work is the definitive record of an extraordinary life lived in turbulent times.
This book tells of the last doomed eleven months in the life of one of the most courageous and dedicated revolutionaries of the 20th century. First published in Cuba in 1968, this is a unique account of the guerrilla's lonely fight against armies, mountains, jungles, hunger, disease and death.
Including Fidel Castro's speech on his first visit to Caracas in 1959 and his return for the inauguration of President ChAvez in 1999, this book examines the strong historical links between Cuba and Venezuela that have been reinforced by a growing political convergence between Fidel Castro and Hugo ChAvez. Since the failed coup in 2002, the State ...
The product of an intimate 23-hour conversation between Fidel Castro and Brazilian liberation theologist Frei Betto, this was a Simon & Schuster bestseller in the 1980s. Here Castro speaks candidly about his views on religion and his formation in elite Catholic colleges, offering an insight into the man behind the beard.
An attractive, small book featuring the Ecuadorian artist's tribute to Fidel Castro on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. Over several decades, Oswaldo GuayasamA-n, the most prominent Latin American artist since Diego Rivera, shared a mutual admiration with Fidel Castro that developed into a strong friendship. This book is the memoir of that ...
Che's diary of the fateful Bolivia mission. Now revised by Che's widow and with a Preface by his son Camilo, this is the definitive account of the attempt to spark a continent-wide revolution in Latin America--the basis of a Steven Soderbergh biopic starring Benicio del Toro.
This is CNNUs astonishingly frank interview with Fidel Castro, in which he makes some remarkable revelations. Far from being a proxy for Moscow, Castro says Cuba's support for liberation movements in Latin America and Africa was a "constant source of disagreement."
"Fidel's devotion to the word is almost magical."--Gabriel Garcia Marquez The most comprehensive selection of the most famous speeches of Fidel Castro is now available in the original Spanish language. An articulate and incisive, if controversial, political figure on the world stage for five decades, Fidel Castro is undoubtedly one of history's ...
"This startling book is based on conversations between the Cuban leader and a Brazilian priest. The talk is informal and far-ranging, and Betto's questions are often provocative ('Does Cuba export revolution?')."-"Publishers Weekly" The product of an intimate 23-hour dialogue between Fidel Castro and Brazilian liberation theologist Frei Betto, ...
This volume includes three speeches of Fidel Castro given in Cuba around January and February of 2003.J In them, it proposes new tools to fight against the new political strategy, the military empire, and the strength of ideas.
This book presents two key and prophetic speeches in which Fidel Castro addresses the urgent issues of the environmental crisis and climate change: his interventions at the UN Conference on the Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1992, and the World Conference: Dialogue of Civilizations in Havana, 2005.
Chile y Allende is Fidel Castro's analysis of the Chilean road to socialism in the 1970s. In 1971, Castro spent a month in Chile, addressing public meetings and discussing with President Salvador Allende Cuba's experience in combating US-inspired counterrevolutionary forces. On departure, he handed Allende a rifle. The book includes Castro's ...
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