Few people know as many explosive geopolitical secrets as Fidel Castro – but don’t expect to find them in his memoirs At the end of the 1980s, when the Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega had emerged as an international figure, he cast around for someone to ghost-write his autobiography. One of his aides casually asked me if I might be interested. I told him no – not because Ortega didn’t have a fascinating life story, but because he was certainly not going to tell it honestly in a book. Ortega never produced an autobiography, but now, according to reports from Havana, Fidel Castro is about to publish a memoir . It is no more likely to be candid than Ortega’s would have been. Few living figures could contribute as much as Castro to our understanding of the second half of the 20th century.
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Fidel Castro will take his secrets to the grave | Stephen Kinzer
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