Cuba under Castro
Fel, Che, the Revolution and I
He is the icon of revolution. But what path will Cuba follow –after Fidel
Castro? Against the backdrop of his personal experiences at Che Guevara’s side in the service of the Cuban revolution and at a remove of many years after his retirement, the author offers us a critical summary of Castro’s career, analysing his ideological and political roots, and describing his legacy – the police state and abject poverty. He also discusses the accomplishments of the Revolution – which explain why the regime survived beyond the Soviet Union and indeed remains to this day. Dr. Peter Schenkel Eisenhertz, born in 1923, studied political economics in Graz, Austria. In 1950 he emigrated to the USA and initially worked as an orange picker in California, before meeting Castro in Mexico and teaming up with him. After 1959 he
worked in the Ministry of Industry, which Castro headed. Disenchanted by the communist direction the Revolution took, he left Cuba in 1966. Subsequently he worked for the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation in Latin America for several years. Today the author lives in Quito, Ecuador.
He is the icon of revolution. But what path will Cuba follow –after Fidel
Castro? Against the backdrop of his personal experiences at Che Guevara’s side in the service of the Cuban revolution and at a remove of many years after his retirement, the author offers us a critical summary of Castro’s career, analysing his ideological and political roots, and describing his legacy – the police state and abject poverty. He also discusses the accomplishments of the Revolution – which explain why the regime survived beyond the Soviet Union and indeed remains to this day. Dr. Peter Schenkel Eisenhertz, born in 1923, studied political economics in Graz, Austria. In 1950 he emigrated to the USA and initially worked as an orange picker in California, before meeting Castro in Mexico and teaming up with him. After 1959 he
worked in the Ministry of Industry, which Castro headed. Disenchanted by the communist direction the Revolution took, he left Cuba in 1966. Subsequently he worked for the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation in Latin America for several years. Today the author lives in Quito, Ecuador.
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