Download or read book Breve historia de Fidel Castro written by Juan Carlos Rivera Quintana and published by Ediciones Nowtilus. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?Dicha obra es un itinerario por los avatares existenciales de Fidel, ese patriarca caribeño: de rebelde con causa a gestor y artífice de un proyecto que ilusionó a toda una generación y hoy suscita todo tipo de sentimientos, menos la indiferencia; todo tipo de adhesiones; muchos rechazos y, sobre todo, la diáspora imparable de sus propios protagonistas.? (Blog El Bazar del espectáculo) La historia del controvertido líder que supo unir a un pueblo en un discurso de restauración democrática, para luego, eliminar aliados y perpetuarse a toda costa en el poder. No podemos entender estos últimos sesenta años de historia de América sin sumergirnos en profundidad en la biografía de Fidel Castro y es que los avatares de Cuba y de gran parte de Centroamérica dependen de las decisiones de este líder que ha sabido perpetuarse en el poder confeccionando el castrismo improvisada y pragmáticamente y eliminando a cualquier tipo de oponente, aunque esto suponga acabar con antiguos aliados. Juan Carlos Rivera Quintana no es un autor ajeno a la figura de Castro, es un periodista que estuvo implicado de un modo activo en la Revolución Cubana pero que, hastiado de gobiernos que se petrifican en el ejercicio de poder, abandonó la isla. Esta cercanía al castrismo y al propio Castro es lo que le permite elaborar esta radiografía pormenorizada del dictador cubano en la que saca a la luz aspectos de su vida poco conocidos hasta ahora. Breve Historia de Fidel Castro nos narra, a través de los hitos en la vida del dictador, el proceso por el cual una revolución de base burguesa y tremendamente heterogénea se fue convirtiendo en un cesarismo de base comunista alrededor de la voluntad de Fidel Castro. El periplo del dictador es presentado desde su infancia, en la que se aclara su verdadera fecha de nacimiento, hasta el traspaso de poder de Fidel al único de sus siete hermanos con el que tiene alguna relación, Raúl Castro. Por el camino no olvida Juan Carlos Rivera relatarnos los mayores logros del castrismo así como sus hechos más controvertidos: el asalto al cuartel de Moncada por el que Castro estuvo preso y posteriormente exiliado en México, el desastre del Granma en el que perdieron la vida 70 de los 82 revolucionarios que desembarcaron en Cuba para derrocar a Batista, la victoria ante el imperialismo yanqui en la invasión de Bahía de Cochinos, la crisis de los misiles, pero también las represalias a los opositores, la oportuna desaparición de Camilo Cienfuegos, la implicación de Fidel en el asesinato del Che o el tráfico de drogas coordinado desde el Ministerio del Interior de Cuba. Razones para comprar la obra: - El autor ha estado directamente implicado en la Revolución Cubana y combina las fuentes más fidedignas con su propia experiencia existencial para ilustrar la historia del castrismo. - La perspectiva del autor nos traslada la euforia principal ante la necesaria revolución y el progresivo desencanto ante el anquilosamiento del régimen, que ha sufrido el pueblo cubano estos últimos sesenta años. - La transición de poder cubana en la actualidad y el análisis de las diferencias entre Fidel y Raúl Castro son temas que están de completa actualidad. - No sólo narra los hechos más determinantes de la vida del dictador sino que nos presenta razonados, los procesos sociales que provocaron esos hechos. Una obra que define perfectamente el descenso de la sociedad cubana del optimismo regeneracionista más radical al colapso económico y emocional causado por el dogmatismo ideológico y la esclerosis de un régimen que, desde postulados socialistas, se ha convertido en un espejo de la voluntad de su dirigente.
Download or read book Young Castro written by Jonathan M. Hansen and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intimate, revisionist portrait of Fidel Castro, showing how an unlikely young Cuban led his country in revolution and transfixed the world, is “sure to become the standard on Castro’s early life” (Publishers Weekly). Until now, biographers have treated Castro’s life like prosecutors, scouring his past for evidence to convict a person they don’t like or don’t understand. Young Castro challenges us to put aside the caricature of a bearded, cigar-munching, anti-American hothead to discover how Castro became the dictator who acted as a thorn in the side of US presidents for nearly half a century. In this “gripping and edifying narrative…Hansen brings imposing research and notable erudition” (Booklist) to Castro’s early life, showing Castro getting his toughness from a father who survived Spain’s class system and colonial wars to become one of the most successful independent plantation owners in Cuba. We see a boy running around that plantation more comfortable playing with the children of his father’s laborers than his own classmates at elite boarding schools in Santiago de Cuba and Havana. We discover a young man who writes flowery love letters from prison and contemplates the meaning of life, a gregarious soul attentive to the needs of strangers but often indifferent to the needs of his own family. These pages show a liberal democrat who admires FDR’s New Deal policies and is skeptical of communism, but is also hostile to American imperialism. They show an audacious militant who stages a reckless attack on a military barracks but is canny about building an army of resisters. In short, Young Castro reveals a complex man. The first American historian in a generation to gain access to the Castro archives in Havana, Jonathan Hansen was able to secure cooperation from Castro’s family and closest confidants. He gained access to hundreds of never-before-seen letters and interviewed people he was the first to ask for their impressions of the man. The result is a nuanced and penetrating portrait of a man at once brilliant, arrogant, bold, vulnerable, and all too human: a man who, having grown up on an island that felt like a colonial cage, was compelled to lead his country to independence.
Download or read book The Autobiography of Fidel Castro written by Norberto Fuentes and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A compelling fictional personage-by turns arrogant, funny, pompous, lewd, self-absorbed and self-deluding."—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times An audacious “biography” of the ex-president of Cuba told in Castro’s own outrageous, bombastic voice. Prize-winning author and journalist Norberto Fuentes was once a revolutionary: a writer with privileged access to Fidel Castro’s inner circle during some the most challenging years of the revolution. But in the late 1990s, as the regime began sending its oldest comrades to the firing squad, he became A Man Who Knew Too Much. Escaping a death sentence and now living in exile, Fuentes has written a brilliant, satirical, and utterly captivating “autobiography” of the Cuban leader—in Fidel’s own arrogant and seductive language—discussing everything from Castro’s early sexual experiences in Birán to his true feelings about Che Guevara and his philosophy on murder, legacy, and state secrets. Critics have long admired Fuentes’s writing; one U.S. article called him “Norman Mailer’s Cuban pen pal.” Akin to Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, or Edmund Morris’s Dutch, this wickedly entertaining, true-to-life masterpiece is as imaginative and outsized as Castro himself.
Download or read book Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America written by Dirk Kruijt and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cuban revolution served as a rallying cry to people across Latin America and the Caribbean. The revolutionary regime has provided vital support to the rest of the region, offering everything from medical and development assistance to training and advice on guerrilla warfare. Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America is the first oral history of Cuba’s liberation struggle. Drawing on a vast array of original testimonies, Dirk Kruijt looks at the role of both veterans and the post-Revolution fidelista generation in shaping Cuba and the Americas. Featuring the testimonies of over sixty Cuban officials and former combatants, Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America offers unique insight into a nation which, in spite of its small size and notional pariah status, remains one of the most influential countries in the Americas.
Download or read book Fidel Castro written by Nick Caistor and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fidel Castro had ruled the island of Cuba for fifty-two years when ill health forced him to step down in 2008. Over the course of that time, he changed Cuba from a republic to a communist state and became one of the most divisive leaders in the second half of the twentieth century. For some, he is a champion of humanitarianism, socialism, and environmentalism. For others, he is a monster and dictator who perpetuated human rights abuses at home and abroad. Providing a rare, evenhanded account of Castro’s life, journalist Nick Caistor brings together interviews with people who have known Castro with discussion of the ideas that drove him. Caistor follows Castro’s life from his birth as the illegitimate son of a wealthy farmer in 1926 to the developing of his leftist, anti-imperialist ideas at the University of Havana and his primary role in the Cuban Revolution in the 1950s. He explores Castro’s economic and military alliance with the Soviet Union and his hostile relationship with the United States while also looking at how he simultaneously introduced free health care and education while squelching freedom of the press and suppressing dissidents. As Caistor shows, Castro’s numerous writings on politics, capitalism, and other topics have influenced leaders from Nelson Mandela to Hugo Chávez, but allegations of corruption, human rights abuses, and dictatorship never ceased during his long career. Using stories and opinions to enliven the debate about Castro’s choices, strengths, and weaknesses, this concise biography gives readers the opportunity to judge for themselves how they feel about the former Cuban president.
Download or read book The Declarations of Havana written by Fidel Castro and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the American administration’s attempt to isolate Cuba, Fidel Castro delivered a series of speeches designed to radicalize Latin American society. As Latin America experiences more revolutions in Venezuela and Bolivia, and continues to upset America’s plans for neo-liberal imperialism, renowned radical writer and activist Tariq Ali provides a searing analysis of the relevance of Castro’s message for today.
Download or read book The Double Life of Fidel Castro written by Juan Reinaldo Sanchez and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory memoir of the 17 years Juan Sanchez spent as one of Fidel Castro's personal soldiers, in his innermost circle
Download or read book Before Night Falls written by Reinaldo Arenas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed memoir of homosexual Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas chronicling his tumultuous yet luminary life, from his impoverished upbringing in Cuba to his imprisonment at the hands of a Communist regime. A Penguin Vitae Edition The astonishing memoir by visionary Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas "is a book above all about being free," said The New York Review of Books--sexually, politically, artistically. Arenas recounts a stunning odyssey from his poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba and his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Castro, through his supression as a writer, imprisonment as a homosexual, his flight from Cuba via the Mariel boat lift, and his subsequent life and the events leading to his death in New York. In what The Miami Herald calls his "deathbed ode to eroticism," Arenas breaks through the code of secrecy and silence that protects the privileged in a state where homosexuality is a political crime. Recorded in simple, straightforward prose, this is the true story of the Kafkaesque life and world re-created in the author's acclaimed novels. Penguin Classics launches a new hardcover series with five American classics that are relevant and timeless in their power, and part of a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from almost seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.
Download or read book Comrade of the Revolution written by Fidel Castro Ruz and published by Leftword Books. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'You cannot kill ideas. Fidel, for the Third World, was not merely another leader. He was the mirror of its aspirations. That mirror will never be shattered.' - From the Introduction.//Fidel Castro's speeches were classrooms for the revolution. Through these speeches, Fidel came before the people to explain the conjuncture and problems the government faced with honesty and by putting them into historical context. Each of his speeches is a tour de force of explication, a history lesson, a sociology lesson, a political lesson, and even a lesson on literature. Fidel reached back to revolutionaries from an earlier time and dug into the data produced by the government. The traditions, experiences, and oral histories of national liberation and Marxism-Leninism articulated by Fidel came alive as he spoke to new audiences engaged in building a socialist experiment just miles away from the heart of the empire.Fidel Castro launched a battle of ideas in defense of socialist thought and the permanent mobilization of the people's consciousness. The speeches collected in this book carry forward the battle of ideas that framed the last decades of Fidel's life until he left us on 26 November 2016 at the age of ninety.
Download or read book Cuba Libre written by Tony Perrottet and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surprising story of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and the scrappy band of rebel men and women who followed them. Most people are familiar with the basics of the Cuban Revolution of 1956–1959: it was led by two of the twentieth century’s most charismatic figures, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara; it successfully overthrew the island nation’s US–backed dictator; and it quickly went awry under Fidel’s rule. But less is remembered about the amateur nature of the movement or the lives of its players. In this wildly entertaining and meticulously researched account, historian and journalist Tony Perrottet unravels the human drama behind history’s most improbable revolution: a scruffy handful of self-taught revolutionaries—many of them kids just out of college, literature majors, and art students, and including a number of extraordinary women—who defeated 40,000 professional soldiers to overthrow the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Cuba Libre!’s deep dive into the revolution reveals fascinating details: How did Fidel’s highly organized lover Celia Sánchez whip the male guerrillas into shape? Who were the two dozen American volunteers who joined the Cuban rebels? How do you make land mines from condensed milk cans—or, for that matter, cook chorizo à la guerrilla (sausage guerrilla-style)? Cuba Libre! is an absorbing look back at a liberation movement that captured the world's imagination with its spectacular drama, foolhardy bravery, tragedy, and, sometimes, high comedy—and that set the stage for Cold War tensions that pushed the world to the brink of nuclear war.
Download or read book Como Llego la Noche written by Huber Matos and published by . This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The triumph of the Cuban Revolution was crowned in 1959 with the entrance of the victorious guerrilla in Havana. Three commanders led the march: Fidel Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos, and Huber Matos. Nine months later, Matos was judged and sentenced to twenty years in prison, which he fully served. Soon after Cienfuegos died in a plane crash in suspicious circumstances, and Castro was left alone in power. "Como llego la nocheo is an invaluable testimony that obtained the prestigious Comillas Prize for biography and memoirs, and it is an honor for Tusquets Editores to give such witness of one of the most controversial and mythical events of the 20th century the means to be heard, after his voice was unjustly silenced for so long.
Download or read book Our History is Still Being Written written by Armando Choy and published by Pathfinder Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chapter in the chronicle of the Cuban Revolution, as told by those on the front lines of that ongoing epic. Armando Choy, Gustavo Chui, and Moisés Sío Wong-three young rebels of Chinese-Cuban ancestry-threw themselves into the great proletarian battle that defined their generation. They became combatants in the clandestine struggle and 1956-58 revolutionary war that brought down a U.S.-backed dictatorship and opened the door to the socialist revolution in the Americas. Each became a general in Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces. Here they talk about the historic place of Chinese immigration to Cuba, as well as more than five decades of revolutionary action and internationalism, from Cuba to Angola, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Fidel Castro and Nelson Mandela).
Download or read book La Historia del Che Guevara Mito o realidad written by Francisco González and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-01-17 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hemos escuchado, a los estadistas mundiales, hablar de como se cuentan los grandes acontecimientos; el desarrollo de un pais, una plaga, una enfermedad, etc. No se alarme, el sufrimiento del pueblo de Cuba se cuenta en numeros de muertos; por mas de 65 anos. Este pequeno pais es una isla, situada en el caribe, su poblacion ha sido sometida, a la mas terrible de las torturas, solo comparable al exterminio de la poblacion camboyana, por el regimen comunista de Pol pot. Este libro, facil de leer, y muy ameno, por la dinamica, en la que resulta su estructura, en capitulos breves, en los cuales, se relatan acciones y acontecimientos, que involucran a este argentino; nombrado Che Guevara. Como cubano; hablare por las victimas de los primeros anos del comunismo radical, en la isla de Cuba, ya que a ellos, no les estuvo permitido expresarse, aun cuando ante la inminente privacion de la vida, suplicaban a sus verdugos, que no los asesinaran, pues eran inocentes. No pretendo abarcar toda la historia, seria creo imposible, pues cada cubano que ha vivido en la isla durante estos mas de 65 anos tiene su propia historia, mas tragica o menos tragica, pero cada uno tiene su historia, les confieso algo: Me ha sido muy dificil escribir a cerca de este asesino, Pero, como secuestrado por estos verdugos, creo que las victimas merecen respeto, por lo tanto. En memoria de las victimas, contare mi version de los hechos; no sin antes, hacer mias las palabras del Maestro de todos los cubanos, Jose Marti; cuando dijo: "Cuando hay muchos hombres sin decoro, hay siempre otros que tienen en si el decoro de muchos hombres. Esos son los que se rebelan con fuerza terrible contra los que les roban a los pueblos su libertad, que es robarles a los hombres su decoro. En esos hombres van miles de hombres, va un pueblo entero, va la dignidad humana." -JOSE MARTI.
Download or read book The Americano written by Aran Shetterly and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2007-08-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why do I fight here in this land so foreign to my own? Why did I come here far from my home and family?...Is it because I seek adventure? No...I am here because I believe that the most important thing for free men to do is to protect the freedom of others." —William Morgan, in a letter to Herbert Matthews at the New York Times When William Morgan was twenty-two years old, he was working as a high school janitor in Toledo Ohio. Seven years later, in 1958, he walked into a Rebel camp in the Cuban Jungle to join the revolutionaries in their fight to overthrow the corrupt Cuban president, Fulgencio Batista. They were wary of the broad-shouldered, blond-haired, blue-eyed americano but Morgan's dedication and passion, his military skill and charisma, led him to become a chief comandante in Castro's army—he was the only foreigner to hold such a rank, with the exception of Che Guevera. Vicious battles in the jungles were followed by victorious revelry in the cities. Morgan married a Cuban beauty. He single-handedly thwarted the Dominican Republic's attempt to overthrow Castro. And he was chosen to work with Castro and other high ranking Rebels to improve the quality of life for all people. This man who had lived under the radar in America was now a Cuban hero on the watch lists of several governments, all of whom wondered whose side he was really on. It all ended in 1961, when, at age thirty-two, Morgan was executed by firing squad, at the hands of Fidel Castro. Journalist Aran Shetterly takes us back to an era when democracy could have flourished in Cuba. He interviewed Morgan's friends and family and former Cuban Rebels, and examined FBI and CIA documents in search of the truth. What emerged was the true story of a young man who had never fit in but finally found his place in the world by fighting another country's war.
Download or read book Breve historia de Fidel Castro written by Juan Carlos Rivera Quintana and published by Ediciones Nowtilus. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?Dicha obra es un itinerario por los avatares existenciales de Fidel, ese patriarca caribeño: de rebelde con causa a gestor y artífice de un proyecto que ilusionó a toda una generación y hoy suscita todo tipo de sentimientos, menos la indiferencia; todo tipo de adhesiones; muchos rechazos y, sobre todo, la diáspora imparable de sus propios protagonistas.? (Blog El Bazar del espectáculo) La historia del controvertido líder que supo unir a un pueblo en un discurso de restauración democrática, para luego, eliminar aliados y perpetuarse a toda costa en el poder. No podemos entender estos últimos sesenta años de historia de América sin sumergirnos en profundidad en la biografía de Fidel Castro y es que los avatares de Cuba y de gran parte de Centroamérica dependen de las decisiones de este líder que ha sabido perpetuarse en el poder confeccionando el castrismo improvisada y pragmáticamente y eliminando a cualquier tipo de oponente, aunque esto suponga acabar con antiguos aliados. Juan Carlos Rivera Quintana no es un autor ajeno a la figura de Castro, es un periodista que estuvo implicado de un modo activo en la Revolución Cubana pero que, hastiado de gobiernos que se petrifican en el ejercicio de poder, abandonó la isla. Esta cercanía al castrismo y al propio Castro es lo que le permite elaborar esta radiografía pormenorizada del dictador cubano en la que saca a la luz aspectos de su vida poco conocidos hasta ahora. Breve Historia de Fidel Castro nos narra, a través de los hitos en la vida del dictador, el proceso por el cual una revolución de base burguesa y tremendamente heterogénea se fue convirtiendo en un cesarismo de base comunista alrededor de la voluntad de Fidel Castro. El periplo del dictador es presentado desde su infancia, en la que se aclara su verdadera fecha de nacimiento, hasta el traspaso de poder de Fidel al único de sus siete hermanos con el que tiene alguna relación, Raúl Castro. Por el camino no olvida Juan Carlos Rivera relatarnos los mayores logros del castrismo así como sus hechos más controvertidos: el asalto al cuartel de Moncada por el que Castro estuvo preso y posteriormente exiliado en México, el desastre del Granma en el que perdieron la vida 70 de los 82 revolucionarios que desembarcaron en Cuba para derrocar a Batista, la victoria ante el imperialismo yanqui en la invasión de Bahía de Cochinos, la crisis de los misiles, pero también las represalias a los opositores, la oportuna desaparición de Camilo Cienfuegos, la implicación de Fidel en el asesinato del Che o el tráfico de drogas coordinado desde el Ministerio del Interior de Cuba. Razones para comprar la obra: - El autor ha estado directamente implicado en la Revolución Cubana y combina las fuentes más fidedignas con su propia experiencia existencial para ilustrar la historia del castrismo. - La perspectiva del autor nos traslada la euforia principal ante la necesaria revolución y el progresivo desencanto ante el anquilosamiento del régimen, que ha sufrido el pueblo cubano estos últimos sesenta años. - La transición de poder cubana en la actualidad y el análisis de las diferencias entre Fidel y Raúl Castro son temas que están de completa actualidad. - No sólo narra los hechos más determinantes de la vida del dictador sino que nos presenta razonados, los procesos sociales que provocaron esos hechos. Una obra que define perfectamente el descenso de la sociedad cubana del optimismo regeneracionista más radical al colapso económico y emocional causado por el dogmatismo ideológico y la esclerosis de un régimen que, desde postulados socialistas, se ha convertido en un espejo de la voluntad de su dirigente.
Download or read book Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba written by Tom Gjelten and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this widely hailed book, NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten fuses the story of the Bacardi family and their famous rum business with Cuba's tumultuous experience over the last 150 years to produce a deeply entertaining historical narrative. The company Facundo Bacardi launched in Cuba in 1862 brought worldwide fame to the island, and in the decades that followed his Bacardi descendants participated in every aspect of Cuban life. With his intimate account of their struggles and adventures across five generations, Gjelten brings to life the larger story of Cuba's fight for freedom, its tortured relationship with America, the rise of Fidel Castro, and the violent division of the Cuban nation.
Download or read book A Short History of Revolutionary Cuba written by Antoni Kapcia and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few island nations have stirred the soul like Cuba. From Hemingway's intoxicating Havana to Ry Cooder's Buena Vista Social Club, outsiders have persistently been fascinated by Cuba for its music (jazz to rumba), its rich literature, its art and dance (danzón to mambo) and perhaps above all for its bold experiment of a socialist revolution in action. Antoni Kapcia shows how the thaw in relations between Cuba and the USA now makes a fresh appraisal of the country and its modern history essential. He authoritatively explores the 'essence' of the Cuban revolution, revealing it to be a maverick phenomenon tied not so much to socialism or Communism for their own sakes but instead to an idealistic vision of postcolonial nationalism. Reassessing the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the author examines the central personalities: not just the famous trio of Che Guevara, Fidel and Raúl Castro in shaping the ideas of the revolution but, still further back, the visionary ideology of José Martí. Kapcia's book reflects on the future of the revolution as aúl nd his government began to cede power to a new generation.
