How Fidel Castro Hoodwinked New York's Beautiful People

摘要

Often forgotten is how young and dynamic Fidel Castro was, only 32 years old, when he and his ragtag group of Cuban exiles-plus a prematurely retired Argentine doctor-took advantage of the void created by the collapse of Fulgencio Batista's widely discredited regime and by the dictator's hasty departure from the island. In quickly claiming control of power despite their lack of numbers, Castro and his brother Raul thereby launched the "Cuban Revolution." In the beginning, the tall, masculine, and charismatic Fidel Castro personified the romantic hero. As one of his most astute critics, Brian Latell, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst, has observed: "He [Fidel] was endlessly complex, a man of great intellect, and an inflexible will. His revolution was, from its very first moments, a one-man show."