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For decades, people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Ignacio Ramonet, the celebrated editor in chief of Le Monde diplomatique, has finally succeeded. For the first time, in a series of extensive and probing interviews, Fidel Castro describes his life from the 1950s to the present day. In frank and compelling detail, he discusses his parents and his childhood, his earliest influences, the beginnings...
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Ever since the sport was introduced to Cuba in the mid-19th century, baseball has been one of the nation's most popular pastimes. Cuban leader Fidel Castro, a lifelong baseball enthusiast who had played the game while a student at the University of Havana, pitched in several exhibition games shortly after assuming control of Cuba in 1959.
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This program tracks the Cuban Revolution from its roots in the dictatorship of Batista, the guerilla war under the leadership of Castro and Che Guevara, their triumph-and then the switch in economic policy which turned the U.S. into an enemy. The program follows the subsequent changes in policy which turned a "good" revolution into a totalitarian one, and Cuba from a client state of the United States into a client of the Soviet Union, which resulted...
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The life of Cuba's Communist leader reveals much about the Cold War, 20th-century Latin American history, and the political and military dimensions of revolutionary movements. This program reaches into all those subjects as it explores the rise and decades-long rule of Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz. Interviews with Latin American experts-including Argentine columnist Oscar Raul Cardoso, historian and psychologist Mario Pacho O'Donnell, and Dr. Roberto...
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Fidel Castro's rise to power in 1959 caused a new tension in the developing cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union. President Dwight Eisenhower recognized Castro's government once it came to power, but he soon found the United States the subject of increasing anti-imperialist rhetoric from the Cuban leader. Within a year from Castro's takeover, Cuba has aligned itself with the Soviet Union and threatened the U.S. military base at...