Cold War by Fidel Castro

Cold War by Fidel Castro

Who won the Cold War? CN's astonishingly frank interview with Fidel Castro in which he makes some remarkable revelations. Far from being a proxy for Moscow, Castro tells CN that Cuba's support for liberation movements in Latin America and Africa was a constant source of disagreement. If a Soviet Cuban master plan had really existed we would have won the Cold War he says.

The Cuban leader's reflections on talk about preemptive nuclear strikes during the 1962 Missile Crisis are frighteningly familiar today.

To endure the global struggle between the superpowers is bad. To live under the total hegemony of one of them is worse.--Fidel Castro

After initiating an armed attack against the Batista government, Fidel Castro was released from prison and fled into exile. He met Ernesto Guevara, a young Argentine doctor, one night in Mexico. Che agreed to join the journey back to Cuba to reestablish popular power after they talked till morning, expressing their ideas and hopes. The rest, as they say, is history.