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ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Richard Behar, Janice Castro, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Christine Gorman, Richard Lacayo, Michael D. Lemonick, Thomas McCarroll, Richard N. Ostling, Priscilla Painton, Janice C. Simpson, Jill Smolowe, Anastasia Toufexis, Richard Zoglin...
...that still respects Fidel as a well-intentioned grandfather who tried to bring equal rights, education and health to the island but is now behind the times. Oppenheimer was exhaustive in his research, which spanned two years, including five months on the hermetic island. He interviewed 500 people, from Castro's own disaffected daughter Alina to Cuba's "yummies" (young upwardly mobile Marxists). Especially telling is the contrast between Che Guevara's eldest grandchild, Canek, a vocally unhappy heavy-metal rock fan, and Armando Hart, the Minister of Culture, who protests "I am a hard-liner!" when complimented for being...
...house outside Havana and in a visit with children ages 6 to 14 where he drones on for three hours about the dialectics of Che. In the end, Oppenheimer doesn't make a convincing argument that Fidel is in his "final hour." His reporting, in fact, illustrates precisely how Castro remains in power: through a combination of personality, national pride and paralyzing fear...
...BOOKS Castro's Final Hour tells sad truths about Cuba today...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Richard Behar, Janice Castro, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Christine Gorman, Richard Lacayo, Michael D. Lemonick, Thomas McCarroll, Richard N. Ostling, Priscilla Painton, Janice C. Simpson, Jill Smolowe, Anastasia Toufexis, Richard Zoglin...