After Fidel: The Inside Story of Castro's Regime and Cuba's Next Leader
Brian Latell
Language: English
Pages: 304
ISBN: 1403975078
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This is a compelling behind-the-scenes account of the extraordinary Castro brothers and the impending dynastic succession of Fidel's younger brother Raul. Brian Latell, the CIA analyst who has followed Castro since the sixties, gives an unprecedented view into Fidel and Raul's remarkable relationship, revealing how they have collaborated in policy making, divided responsibilities, and resolved disagreements for more than forty years--a challenge to the notion that Fidel always acts alone. Latell has had more access to the brothers than anyone else in this country, and his briefs to the CIA informed much of U.S. policy. Based on his knowledge of Raul Castro, Latell makes projections on what kind of leader Raul would be and how the shift in power might influence U.S.-Cuban relations.
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close associate who heard the story from Raul, he did not pause to investigate and never reported the incident to Mexican authorities. So Raul was experienced as an executioner when he was again faced with that necessity as a guerrilla. Eutimio Guerra was led away. Raul noted dryly in his diary that the execution on February 17, 1957, occurred exactly one month, almost to the hour, after “we had executed Chicho Osorio, a man notorious for the crimes he had committed against the peasants.”21
another crucial survival strategy, setting the stage for how he would govern. Fidel realized that he was the only one in his small band of guerrillas who had divined that Eutimio was a traitor. Even Raul had not understood this. Nor had Fidel’s trusted bodyguard, who, more than anyone else, had a duty to be suspicious and alert. As a result, Fidel concluded that he would need to create independent, competitive intelligence and security services so that in the future the carelessness of one might
operations center. There were nights when I stood in front of them for hours, pulling out sheet after sheet of Fidel’s orations not too many minutes after he spoke them. * * * When Fidel came down from the Sierra Maestra to assume power on New Year’s Day in 1959, FBIS—by then integrated into the CIA—was preparing to monitor his public appearances. The first was a celebratory address he delivered from a balcony overlooking Cespedes Park in Santiago, on the night of his victory. It was one of
script-writer, and an acting coach, together they could not have devised a more memorable, inimitable character than the Fidel Castro the world has known for so long. After I left the CIA, a former Cuban intelligence official revealed to me during long conversations in Miami that Fidel studied at an actor’s studio in Mexico City while in exile there.10 The Cuban officer and I agreed that surely Fidel had been the star pupil and could easily have won leading man parts in Mexican soap operas or on
