Fidel Castro: My Life

By Fidel Castro, Ignacio Ramonet

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Politics & Social Sciences

Fidel Castro: My Life (English edition, 2007) is a spoken autobiography of the Cuban leader, based on more than a hundred hours of interviews with journalist Ignacio Ramonet. Castro talks about his childhood, his Jesuit schooling, the failed attack on the Moncada Barracks, his exile in Mexico and the guerrilla war that brought him to power in 1959. He also gives his views on the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Che Guevara, relations with the United States and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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