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Fidel Castro: Biografía a dos voces (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Ignacio Ramonet (Author)
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July 4, 2006
El 13 de agosto el enigmatico dictador cumplirá sus 80 años en esta tierra. En Fidel Castro: Biografía a dos voces, Igancio Ramonet, sociòlogo, teórico de cultura, periodista y una de las voces más representativas del movimiento altermundista, ha logrado desvelar —tras semanas de intensas conversaciones- las claves de la Revolución cubana a través de la biografía humana y política del último «monstruo sagrado» de la política internacional: el polémico Fidel Castro. Testimonio excepcional y análisis histórico, este libro es una auténtica «biografía a dos voces»: la memoria oral del comandante.

¿Cómo fue su infancia? ¿Dónde y cuándo se forjó el rebelde? ¿Cómo eran sus relaciones con Che Guevara? ¿Estuvo el mundo al borde de una guerra nuclear durante la llamada «crisis de los misiles»? ¿Cuántas veces han querido asesinarlo? ¿Qué impresión le causó el papa Juan Pablo II cuando visitó la isla en 1998? ¿Por qué crtica tanto a Felipe González y a José María Aznar mientras alaba la figura del rey Juan Carlos? ¿Qué piensa de la globalización neoliberal, de la guerra de Irak y del presidente Bush? ¿Por qué las autoridades cubanas arrestaron a unos setenta opositores no violentos en marzo de 2003 y aplicaron, ese mismo año la pena de muerte a los secuestrados de una lancha? ¿Existe corrupción en el régimen? ¿Es el socialismo en Cuba realmente «irreversible»? ¿Hacia dónde camina la política y la economía de la isal? ¿Que ocurrirá despues de Fidel Castro?

El exhaustivo cuestionario de Ignacio Ramonet —más de cien horas de entrevistas y de inéditas revelaciones- es al tiempo un recorrido apasionante por la controvertida figura de Fidel Castro y un formidable relato sobre el pasado, el presente y el provenir de la Revolución.


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  • Paperback: 656 pages
  • Publisher: Debate; Pap/DVD edition (July 4, 2006)
  • Language: Spanish
  • ISBN-10: 0307376532
  • ISBN-13: 978-0307376534
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 1.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,035,588 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fidel Castro: Biografia a dos voces, November 13, 2006
This review is from: Fidel Castro: Biografía a dos voces (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
Fidel Castro, Biografía a dos voces (Biography in two voices) is one of the most extraordinary and longest books I have read in recent years. (It weighs in at 665 pages and is accompanied by a DVD containing selections from the interviews.) The author is a Spanish journalist named Ignacio Ramonet who is the director of the prestigious Parisian newspaper Le Monde Diplomatique. Through 100 hours of marathon conversations with the 80-year old president of Cuba, Ramonet masterfully sketches an impressive image of his subject. He portrays Fidel's profound sense of history, his love of science and medicine, and his international solidarity with oppressed groups.

In his extended chats with Ramonet, the khaki-clad Cuban commander talks of his childhood and university studies. He explains how his revolutionary ideas were forged and analyzes the struggle against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. He covers the Cuban missile crisis, the case of the corrupt commander Ochoa executed by the revolutionary authorities, the fall of the Soviet Union, Pope John Paul II, globalization, North Korea, Bolivian president Evo Morales, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, and the war in Iraq. Among the most interesting segments are those in which he speaks of his extraordinary friendships with fellow revolutionaries Camilo Cienfuegos and Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

Ramonet's book reads like a classic novel and will keep the reader enthralled to the end. It should be read by all Hispanics and translated into English so that the people of the U.S. may have a better understanding of how their government has dealt with Cuba and other Latin American countries.

Reviewed by: Dr. Félix Ojeda Reyes, Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, translated by Alicia Pousada
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4.0 out of 5 stars Castro is quite verbose, so the read is somewhat boring and slow. However is does give a very interesting view, February 27, 2009
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Spanish journalist, Ignacio Ramonet, director of Le Monde Diplomatique in Paris, spent many hours from January 2003 until December 2005 interviewing Cuba's Fidel Castro. The result is 569 pages of candid conversations between both men, from Castro's childhood, his formation, his revolutionary days, and his forty plus years at the helm of the Island nation.

Ramonet tries to follow a chronological pattern, but it is very difficult because Castro loves to talk and jumps from one theme to another as he remembers things.

Unfortunately Ramonet does not confront nor questions Castro's answers, so it is a very one way version of the world's longest dictator's view on things, without any attempt to check the facts.

Castro is quite verbose, so the read is somewhat boring and slow. However is does give a very interesting view of this charismatic world leader.
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4.0 out of 5 stars a journey into the mind, August 5, 2008
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Great book, great insite in the mind of the last 'ultimate' leaders in this day and age. Nice touch by ading photos and as a special bonus the dvd. For any fan or interested in history.
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