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Fidel Castro: Biografia a dos voces | 
 enlarge | Author: Ignacio Ramonet
Publisher: Debate
Category: Book
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 131442
Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/DVD
Pages: 656
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.9 x 2
ISBN: 0307376532
Dewey Decimal Number: 972.91064092
EAN: 9780307376534
ASIN: 0307376532
Publication Date: July 4, 2006
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El 13 de agosto el enigmatico dictador cumplira sus 80 anos en esta tierra. En Fidel Castro: Biografia a dos voces, Igancio Ramonet, sociologo, teorico de cultura, periodista y una de las voces mas representativas del movimiento altermundista, ha logrado desvelar —tras semanas de intensas conversaciones- las claves de la Revolucion cubana a traves de la biografia humana y politica del ultimo monstruo sagrado de la politica internacional: el polemico Fidel Castro. Testimonio excepcional y analisis historico, este libro es una autentica biografia a dos voces : la memoria oral del comandante.
Como fue su infancia? Donde y cuando se forjo el rebelde? Como eran sus relaciones con Che Guevara? Estuvo el mundo al borde de una guerra nuclear durante la llamada crisis de los misiles ? Cuantas veces han querido asesinarlo? Que impresion le causo el papa Juan Pablo II cuando visito la isla en 1998? Por que crtica tanto a Felipe Gonzalez y a Jose Maria Aznar mientras alaba la figura del rey Juan Carlos? Que piensa de la globalizacion neoliberal, de la guerra de Irak y del presidente Bush? Por que las autoridades cubanas arrestaron a unos setenta opositores no violentos en marzo de 2003 y aplicaron, ese mismo ano la pena de muerte a los secuestrados de una lancha? Existe corrupcion en el regimen? Es el socialismo en Cuba realmente irreversible ? Hacia donde camina la politica y la economia de la isal? Que ocurrira despues de Fidel Castro?
El exhaustivo cuestionario de Ignacio Ramonet —mas de cien horas de entrevistas y de ineditas 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 Revolucion.
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 a journey into the mind August 5, 2008
VicAla
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.
Fast shipping! May 31, 2008
Tania Guillen (Nicaragua)
A great book, and the shipping was faster than i have spected.
Thanks!
Fidel Castro: a hero of the twentieth century March 31, 2008
Mr. G. H. Ginns
I have just read Biografia a dos voces - a biography of Fidel Castro, in which Ramonet asks searching questions of Fidel Castro during one hundred hours of interviews. The book is a 'tour de force' and shows Castro to be a man of great integrity, an intellectual and a truly exemplary figure of the twentieth century, contrary to opinions generally held in the US. I read this book on a visit to Cuba and witnessed first hand the truths this book contains. If you wish to know first hand the life of one of the greatest men of the last century read this book. The Spanish version also comes with a DVD of highlights of the interviews, which gives a memorable vision of this great statesman.
Castro Revelations February 8, 2008
Hugo Uribe
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The extensive and deep interview-conversation of Spanish-born, France-resident writer-journalist Ignacio Ramonet with Fidel Castro is surprising in that a leader so reluctant to grant interviews agreed to spend, as Ramonet says in his introduction, one hundred hours of mostly candid revelations about his life, including childhood, adolescence, student days, rebellious spirit, personal sense of justice, and his bravery not only in battle but also to face the immense power and extreme hostility of a United States scarcely 90 miles across the ocean.
Most autobiographies are self-serving, and although this "Biografia a dos voces," or in English My Life Fidel Castro, is not an autobiography in a strict sense, neither is a classical journalistic interview with challenges when necessary to clear up apparent contradictions or controversial statements or judgments.
The book reveals a deep devotion of Castro towards Che Guevara, great affection and admiration. His insights of how valuable Che was to the Revolution first as a doctor and then as a fighter and commander are of tremendous value to anybody interested in Cuba's tormented history.
I have with me the first edition in Spanish and the recent Andrew Hurley translation of the third edition.
There are substantial additions and changes to the first version, including in the latest edition an exchange of letters between Castro and Nikita Khrushchev during and after the Missile Crisis of October 1962.
In one of the letters, dated October 26, 1962, Fidel dangerously suggests that the Soviets should consider an atomic attack against the United States.
Castro shows in the book a deep knowledge on an array of subjets, including on political, military, economic and scientific matters.
He also shows his political prejudice when he asserts, without offering any proof, that the September 11, 2001, attacks against the Twin Towers were organised by the "same American institutions and services" who trained those who actually carried them out.
When Fidel says that no-one has suffered torture in Cuban jails since the triumph of the Revolution in 1959 and that the Cuban Bay of Pigs prisoners in 1961 were treated according to strict Geneva Convention rules, and that the cause of his country's woes throughout is history since independence from Spain has been the "Empire" to the north makes one think whether he has more than a point.
He is also believable when he says his Revolution has done away with illiteracy, that medicine in Cuba has advanced to the extent that now Cuba exports doctors and, despite the criplling US siege, its economy remains solid - after surviving "the special period" following the Soviet Union collapse.
People like Fidel only come once in history, and perhaps History will indeed absolve him.
Hugo Uribe
Sydney, Australia
Cuba through Fidel Castro's eyes July 16, 2007
Alkeidos
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I appreciate very much the book, in original language. It gives the backstage of a big part of Cusa's hystory. The parts that I believed where the one's where Fidel Castro is remembering his life. When he was a children, in an ancient and poor country, where he had the oportunity to make bigger his natural instinct deploring the acts against the human right.
From this pages comes out a incredible part of Castro, made of sensibility, believe in equality, friendship. A complete different look on what we are used to know him.
Also all the Cuban's Revolucion comes out like a big and strong believe that peoples had to help the cubans to grow up and take his own identity.
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