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Fidel Castro Handbook

by George Galloway
£14.99   hardback  MQ Publications Ltd (2006)

Fidel Castro Handbook by George Galloway The Fidel Castro Handbook is an impassioned account of the rise to power of one of the most dedicated revolutionaries who has ever lived. As early as 1959, Look journalist William Attwood said of Fidel: "As a symbol of resistance to a brutal and corrupt dictatorship, he was a ling legend and a national hero before turning 30."
 
A comprehensive photographic documentary of Fidel's personal and political history and a stunning collection of rare family pictures, posters and cartoons.
 
Faced with half a century of U.S. blockade, battered by subversion, terrorism, assassination plots, insult and slander, Fidel led his beloved Cuba for nearly half a century and witnessed other Latin American socialist leaders such as Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales come to power.
 
Includes exclusive interviews with: Ricardo Alarcon, President of the Cuban parliament; Comandante Ramiro Valdes, Fidel's life-long comrade and Hero of the Republic of Cuba; Abel Prieto, Cuba's Minister of Culture, Jose Pertierra, a Washington lawyer representing the Government of Venezuela in its claim for the extradition from the U.S. of Cuban-born terrorist Luis Posada Carriles; Dr Wayne S. Smith, American diplomat in Havana from July 1958 to January 1961 and from 1979 to 1982; and Alice Walker, world-renowned author and political activist.
 
Features essays on Fidel's family and childhood, his political influences, his emergence as a student activist and rebel leader; the triumphant guerilla campaign which overthrew Batista; the revolutionary transformation of Cuba; the Bay of Pigs invasion and the long U.S. terror campaign against Cuba; the Missile Crisis; living with the Russians; revolutionary internationalism; survival against the odds; and Fidel's leadership of the Axis of Good - as a truly Latin American revolutionary.
 
The Fidel Castro Handbook vindicates Fidel's faith in the Cuban revolution as a living inspiration for oppressed peoples everywhere - and is required reading for everyone interested in the formation of a truly free and independent Latin America.

ISBN 13: 9781840726886 | ISBN 10: 1840726881

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