December 2009 Archives

After a daring escape attempt in 1989, celebrated Cuban journalist Norberto Fuentes was imprisoned by his former friend Fidel Castro. Twenty years on, Fuentes tells the history of the revolution in Castro's own voice. Fuentes' new book, "The Autobiography of Fidel Castro", has just been published. He describes how he came to write it. On August 31, 1986, following a seventeen-hour journey from Havana, with a layover in Sal Island, Cape Verde, Fidel Castro arrived in Zimbabwe. He settled into the house in the outskirts of bucolic Harare, a house which had been procured and prepared for him and later became the permanent residence of the Cuban ambassador.