Castro, el desleal (Spanish Edition) [Spanish]

By Serge Raffy

Este libro, que se podra definir como un autntico thriller poltico, a medio camino entre la cancin de gesta y el realismo mgico, es el resultado de largos aos de investigaciones, de cientos de... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 1598205846
• ISBN13: 9781598205848
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Aguilar
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Castro The Deceitful

Independently of whatever feelings one may have towards Fidel Castro, one cannot deny his importance as a political figure for the past 60 years or so. Today, the resurgence of leftist movements all over Latin America, from the autocratic Hugo Chavez in Venezuela to more moderate figures like Da Silva in Brazil, shows that Castro is still relevant. Yet, most of us do not really know any details about Fidel Castro's life. Serge Raffy tries to fill that information vacuum with this book. Raffy conducted a thorough investigation on Castro's life including both documents and interviews with many direct witnesses, many of whom were key in helping Castro to reach power and to establish his lifelong dictatorship. The result is this book that shows us a very intimate look into Castro's personality. Raffy walks us through Castro's childhood and adolescence showing us the making of the monster in clear detail. Later chapters focus on his revolution and how he got to power eliminating and stepping over those who he felt were an obstacle to his personal project. I find this book excellent. My only wish is for a second volume exploring in more detail the later history of Castro's regime.

Castro el Desleal

Un libro muy interesante donde se aprende mucho sobre la vida de Fidel Castro, todo el que le interese el caso de Cuba debe de leer este libro.

Castro, the liar

This is the first book to nail down precisely Castro's early background and its enduring influences on the dictator's tendencies and insecurities. This carefully researched work provides photocopies of baptism, name change, and marriage documents. Since publication of the book in 2003, these records have disappeared in Cuba and several "official" versions of Castro's background were commissioned out of Cuba attempting to confuse the facts and spin Castro's versions of his childhood and his parents. Raffy's book describes the elder (Angel) Castro's extramarital relations with a 14-year-old house servant, Lina Ruz, Fidel's mother. Lina Ruz was nearly 40 years younger than Angel Castro at the time she became pregnant with the first of six illegitimate children. The book explores in detail Castro's illegitimacy, his baptism as a 6-year-old as Fidel Ruz (children in Catholic nations typically are baptized shortly after birth, using their father's surname), his subsequent name change at age 17 (when he also added "Alejandro" as a middle name, after reading about Alexander the Great in school, and listing Castro as his surname) and subsequent recognition by his father. Amazingly, all previous biographers missed all of these facts, unquestioningly reporting what Castro had fed them about his childhood. Just for the childhood sections, this book is worth it.