[Marxism] More Anti-Fidel Crap From Sam Farber

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The following appeared in the latest edition of the  International Socialist 
Review, a bi-monthly magazine produced and distributed  by the UK SWP. 
 
 
 
REVIEW ESSAY
Fidel Castro's political testament 
Fidel Castro: BiografÃa a Dos Voces
Ignacio  Ramonet
Random House Mondadori â 2006 â 655 pages  
REVIEW by SAM FARBER  
THIS IS a book-long interview, the outcome of conversations that Ignacio  
Ramonet, the Spanish-born editor of the Parisian Le Monde Diplomatique, had 
with  
Fidel Castro from January 2003 to December 2005. A short time after the book  
came out, Castro stepped aside as head of state on July 31, 2006, due to a  
serious illness, the nature of which was declared a state secret. His younger  
brother RaÃl, officially designated as his successor since the early days of 
the  1959 Revolution, replaced him âfor the time being.â1 The timing of 
Castroâ
s illness and the release of  Ramonetâs book led the Cuban governmentâs 
media to make a lot more out of this  publishing event than might have 
otherwise 
been the case. Significantly, the  ample coverage and serialization of 
Ramonetâ
s interview was accompanied by the  Cuban mediaâs serialization of the 
Secretos de Generales,2 containing the biographies of forty-one top Cuban  
generals, 
which had already appeared and been serialized ten years earlier. The  
official media, while glorifying Fidel, were simultaneously building up the  
image of 
the top army brass. 
contd: _http://www.isreview.org/issues/54/castro.shtml_ 
(http://www.isreview.org/issues/54/castro.shtml)  



   
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