Ada Ferrer, Historian: “A National Dialogue Is What Should Have Happened a Long Time Ago in Cuba”

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The scene took place almost half a century ago. It’s June 9, 1977 and ABC News is about to broadcast the long-awaited interview of American journalist Barbara Walters to Cuban President Fidel Castro. There’s a family of four, a marriage and their two daughters, in front of the TV set in an apartment room in West New York, New Jersey. Before I start the interview and Castro says that he became a communist studying the political economy of capital…