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Re: [IRCA] Castro near death
I recently read a detailed biography "Che Guevara, A Revolutionary Life", by
Jon Anderson. Raul was with Fidel when they were they were jailed under
Battista, as political exiles in Mexico, when they made the landing on the
southern coast of Cuba, fighting Battista's army from the mountains and then
in Habana. Aside from the physical difference - Fidel with beard, and Raul
without - Raul in the early days was much more open to aligning with the
Communist Party while Fidel kept some distance from it in trying to
establish a broader nationalist movement. Depending on your political
perspective, Fidel was either pushed into the arms of the Soviet Union by
the aggressive US effort to contain and/or undermine a free Cuba, or he was
a closet communist using nationalism to hide his real aims. It also seems
that Fidel was more patient, while Raul was more hot-headed, in the heat of
conflict. Of course, this is from an account about their personalities
nearly 50 years ago .... people change over time, and these two brothers are
now 75 and 79 years old. The book also had some interesting stuff about
the origins of Radio Rebelde as a guerilla radio station.
Jim Renfrew, Byron NY
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] Castro near death
>I heard his brother was going to take over anyway. I don't know much
> about him, but apparently he has been there since the beginning also.
>
> Patrick
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