Fidel Castro, My Life A Spoken Autobiography
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Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
Auteur:
Ignacio Ramonet
Fidel Castro
Co-auteur:
Ignacio Ramonet
- Engels
- Paperback
- 9781416562337
- 09 juni 2009
- 723 pagina's
Ignacio Ramonet
Ignacio Ramonet (Redondela (Galicië, Spanje), 5 mei 1943) is een Spaanse journalist. Hij was lange tijd hoofdredacteur van het maandblad Le Monde Diplomatique en tevens oprichter van ATTAC. Hij leeft en werkt in Frankrijk sinds 1972. Hij is een oud-leerling van Roland Barthes, afgestudeerd aan de École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Parijs, doctor in semiotiek. Hij was van 1991 tot in 2008 directeur van het maandblad Le Monde diplomatique. Hij is eveneens doctor honoris causa van de universiteit van Santiago de Compostella en auteur van verschillende werken over geopolitiek en mediakritiek. Zijn editoriaal in Le Monde diplomatique van december 1997 vormde de basis voor de oprichting van de vereniging ATTAC. Hij was een van de promotors van het Wereld Sociaal Forum van Porto Alegre (Brazilië) waarvoor hij de slogan "Een andere wereld is mogelijk" suggereerde. Ook is hij oprichter van de internationale NGO Media Watch Global en haar Franse versie Observatoire français des médias. (Bron: Wikipedia)
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The intimate and highly revealing life story of the world's longest-serving, most charismatic, and controversial head of state in modern times.
Fidel Castro was a dictatorial pariah to some and a hero and inspiration for many of the world's poor, defiantly charting an independent and revolutionary path for Cuba over nearly half a century. Numerous attempts were made to get Castro to tell his own story. But only in the twilight of his years was he prepared to set out the details of his remarkable biography for the world to read before his death in 2016. This book is nothing less than his living testament.
In these pages, Castro narrates a compelling chronicle that spans the harshness of his elementary school teachers; the early failures of the revolution; his intense comradeship with Che Guevara and their astonishing, against-all-odds victory over the dictator Batista; the Cuban perspective on the Bay of Pigs and the ensuing missile crisis; the active role of Cuba in African independence movements (especially its large military involvement in fighting apartheid South Africa in Angola); his relations with prominent public figures such as Boris Yeltsin, Pope John Paul II, and Saddam Hussein; and his dealings with no less than ten successive American presidents, from Eisenhower to George W. Bush.
Castro talks proudly of increasing life expectancy in Cuba; of the half million students in Cuban universities; and of the training of seventy thousand Cuban doctors nearly half of whom work abroad, assisting the poor in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He confronts a number of thorny issues, including democracy and human rights, discrimination toward homosexuals, and the presence of the death penalty on Cuban statute books. Along the way he shares intimacies about more personal matters: the benevolent strictness of his father, his successful attempt to give up cigars, his love of Ernest Hemingway's novels, and his calculation that by not shaving he saves up to ten working days each year.
Drawing on more than one hundred hours of interviews with Ignacio Ramonet, a knowledgeable and trusted interlocutor, this spoken autobiography will stand as the definitive record of an extraordinary life lived in turbulent times.
Fidel Castro was a dictatorial pariah to some and a hero and inspiration for many of the world's poor, defiantly charting an independent and revolutionary path for Cuba over nearly half a century. Numerous attempts were made to get Castro to tell his own story. But only in the twilight of his years was he prepared to set out the details of his remarkable biography for the world to read before his death in 2016. This book is nothing less than his living testament.
In these pages, Castro narrates a compelling chronicle that spans the harshness of his elementary school teachers; the early failures of the revolution; his intense comradeship with Che Guevara and their astonishing, against-all-odds victory over the dictator Batista; the Cuban perspective on the Bay of Pigs and the ensuing missile crisis; the active role of Cuba in African independence movements (especially its large military involvement in fighting apartheid South Africa in Angola); his relations with prominent public figures such as Boris Yeltsin, Pope John Paul II, and Saddam Hussein; and his dealings with no less than ten successive American presidents, from Eisenhower to George W. Bush.
Castro talks proudly of increasing life expectancy in Cuba; of the half million students in Cuban universities; and of the training of seventy thousand Cuban doctors nearly half of whom work abroad, assisting the poor in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He confronts a number of thorny issues, including democracy and human rights, discrimination toward homosexuals, and the presence of the death penalty on Cuban statute books. Along the way he shares intimacies about more personal matters: the benevolent strictness of his father, his successful attempt to give up cigars, his love of Ernest Hemingway's novels, and his calculation that by not shaving he saves up to ten working days each year.
Drawing on more than one hundred hours of interviews with Ignacio Ramonet, a knowledgeable and trusted interlocutor, this spoken autobiography will stand as the definitive record of an extraordinary life lived in turbulent times.
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