Castro's Cuba

A look at modern Cuba through the words of Fidel Castro

 

I'm amazed that, in the West, where you suppose that there are cultured societies and that people think, there's such a strong tendency to associate historical events with individuals and to magnify the role of the individual. I can see it myself, in such phrases as: "Castro's Cuba," "Castro did this," "Castro undid that." …It seems to me to be an erroneous approach to historical and political events."

 

Sources used:

Castro, Fidel. Fidel Castro: Nothing Can Stop the Course of History. Interview by Jeffrey M. Elliot and Mervyn M. Dymally. New York: Pathfinder Press, 1986.

Castro, Fidel. Speeches at Three Congresses. La Habana: Editora Politica, 1982.

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