Fidel Castro’s revolution began in hope, hardened into authoritarianism and endured as an audacious rebuke to American empire. Steve Wasserman ScheerPost Nearly seventy years ago, Herbert Matthews of The New York Times interviewed a rebel-with-a-cause most people thought was dead. Matthews’ scoop in the tangled jungle of Cuba’s Sierra Maestra proved the man was alive.…
A century after his birth, Fidel Castro remains an emblematic figure that is part of the history of the 20th century. But beyond the firm leader against foreign interference and the commander there was a person with convictions, character and a particular way to relate to others.