29 July 2010

CUBA: Stephen Kinzer On Fidel Castro's Autobiography; Secrets Are Unlikely.

GUARDIAN/ STEPHEN KINZER: OPINION/ On the first volume of Fidel Castro's memoirs, "The Strategic Victory."
    "Although Castro is built on a larger-than-life scale, he has never been known as reflective or self-aware. His ideology has evidently not changed in half a century. For much of that time he was widely said to hold more direct personal control over his people than any leader in the world. How did that feel? Was it necessary? Don't buy Castro's memoir expecting insightful reflection on questions like these.
Few people in the world know as many explosive geopolitical secrets as Castro. Within him he is carrying a blockbuster best-seller. He is unlikely ever to write it. Like the disciplined militant he is, he will take his trove of secrets to the grave."