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An Encounter With Fidel
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273 pages, Paperback
First published December 31, 1991
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January 30, 2021
Fidel Castro is one of the greatest heroes in modern history.
September 6, 2025
I was at the library looking for a book about Cuba. Why? Idk I’ve read a lot about Cuban history already but I had a hankering. The thing that sucks is how much chaff you gotta sort through…
One hangover of the Cold War is the incessant propaganda. The US government sunk millions into crap studies and bunk reports about Cuba. I saw this funny one about how evil Cuban Communists are liquidating all black people on the island. LOL. Book was for sure financed by the Hamburger Eagle Institute.
The book I really wanted to find was We Are Cuba! but alas I will probably need to order that one myself.
So this book…
This interview with Castro takes place as the USSR, the main trading partner of Cuba, is collapsing and Cuba is preparing to go into the “special period”. It’s interesting how this small island under constant siege by their rabid bully up north manages to pull through the 1990s. Of course, thats not the main focus here.
We get some talk of numerous achievements the revolution won the people of Cuba from healthcare to education. There are chapters dedicated to questions of human rights and religious freedom. Propaganda is discussed during pretty much every chapter.
Anyways I give this 5 meows! At the point of this interview the Cuban people have won their island for about 30 years and accomplished so much!
They made great medical breakthroughs and have today surpassed their much richer neighbor in health outcomes.
They turned 30% literacy to full literacy in just a few years!
They sent food to Vietnam at a time when the US Empire was dumping millions of tons of toxic Agent Orange attempting to kill all of their food production.
They assisted multiple African countries in their own liberatory struggles against European colonialism and played a deciding role in Angolan freedom and ending South African apartheid (which the US now pretends it didn’t support - it did).
They developed multiple highly effective inoculations against many diseases including of course COVID.
They closed down all the brutal torture facilities run by the pet dictator Batista. All but one: Gitmo, which still operates today.
They ran out the mafia.
Women can now be employed in all sectors of industry and government, not just prostitution like before.
They even passed Civil Rights legislation at a time when the US was still Jim Crowing it up.
Or you can believe the dumb US propaganda about Cuba being a paradise interrupted by evil communists or whatever. Then you can go applaud weird Shen Yun cultists making the same tall tales about Chinese history.
One hangover of the Cold War is the incessant propaganda. The US government sunk millions into crap studies and bunk reports about Cuba. I saw this funny one about how evil Cuban Communists are liquidating all black people on the island. LOL. Book was for sure financed by the Hamburger Eagle Institute.
The book I really wanted to find was We Are Cuba! but alas I will probably need to order that one myself.
So this book…
This interview with Castro takes place as the USSR, the main trading partner of Cuba, is collapsing and Cuba is preparing to go into the “special period”. It’s interesting how this small island under constant siege by their rabid bully up north manages to pull through the 1990s. Of course, thats not the main focus here.
We get some talk of numerous achievements the revolution won the people of Cuba from healthcare to education. There are chapters dedicated to questions of human rights and religious freedom. Propaganda is discussed during pretty much every chapter.
Anyways I give this 5 meows! At the point of this interview the Cuban people have won their island for about 30 years and accomplished so much!
They made great medical breakthroughs and have today surpassed their much richer neighbor in health outcomes.
They turned 30% literacy to full literacy in just a few years!
They sent food to Vietnam at a time when the US Empire was dumping millions of tons of toxic Agent Orange attempting to kill all of their food production.
They assisted multiple African countries in their own liberatory struggles against European colonialism and played a deciding role in Angolan freedom and ending South African apartheid (which the US now pretends it didn’t support - it did).
They developed multiple highly effective inoculations against many diseases including of course COVID.
They closed down all the brutal torture facilities run by the pet dictator Batista. All but one: Gitmo, which still operates today.
They ran out the mafia.
Women can now be employed in all sectors of industry and government, not just prostitution like before.
They even passed Civil Rights legislation at a time when the US was still Jim Crowing it up.
Or you can believe the dumb US propaganda about Cuba being a paradise interrupted by evil communists or whatever. Then you can go applaud weird Shen Yun cultists making the same tall tales about Chinese history.
August 25, 2021
Desde la anécdota a lo programático, y tras una entrevista de 15 horas, en este libro el entrevistador italiano hace un completo acercamiento a Fidel Castro que resulta ameno e interesante. Especialmente interesantes son sus apuntes sobre medicina pública, política exterior, o su relación con el Che.
August 24, 2025
fidel podía hablar de todo
August 9, 2024
Modi diversi di concepire la civiltà
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