After Fidel: The Inside Story of Castro's Regime and Cuba's Next Leader
by Brian Latell
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Author: Brian LatellEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-10-14
ISBN: 1403969434
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Book Review: Misleading title and sub-title, just another anti Castro book
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this book in an airport whilst travelling and I wish I had not bothered. I normally plan my serious book purchases but the alluring subtitle; "Raul Castro and the Future of Cuba's Revolution" caught me like a fish and reeled me in.
The book turned out to be not much more than the typical Fidel biography you would expect from someone that has worked for the USA intelligence agencies. I didn't expect much apart from speculation with regard to the future of the island as nobody can accurately predict just what will happen when Fidel does die.
But I was disappointed that Raul Castro is hardly mentioned in detail throughout the book, the focus is on the past and on Fidel and there are plenty of books from the same perspective that have been written before and written better than this one. I want to know more about Raul and the other people in the Cuban government and that is why I bought this but I ended up feeling let down.
The book could also have benefited by having more documented proof of some of his assertions. There is plenty of evidence from the CIA's own declassified files for the various terrorist attacks against Fidel and against Cuba since the USA government went off the revolution and became openly hostile towards it. Surely the world would benefit from seeing similar evidence out in the open for Latell's claims about Cuban sponsored terrorism instead of relying solely on interviews which without proof amount to little more than gossip. With the sources he has access to and his time spent working in the roles he has I would have expected a more credible book than this one.
There is a need for unbiased works on Cuba and the Castro brothers, this book does not fulfil that need and is a waste of money unless you want to add another anti-Fidel book to your collection.
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