Leave it to Cuban leader Fidel Castro to spend much of the only public time he’s had recently involved in obvious self promotion. The dictator appeared at a Havana concention center on Saturday where he spent six hours presenting his new two-volume memoir according to Cuba’s state media.
Castro has become increasingly reclusive following several bouts of sickness during the last half-decade, however state media portrayed the dictator during his recently outing as a smiling, happy man in images released for Cuban television.
Fidel was spotted wearing a dark track suit over a blue plaid button-up dress shirt however while he looked in good spirit state media chose not to air audio clips from the leaders six hour presentation.
Before attending the event the Community Party newspaper Granma promised guests at the convention hall that they would hear about “two books that you haven’t had any news of.”
Titled “Guerrilla of Time” the two-volume book series features nearly 1,000 pages and examines Castro’s life from childhood through December 1958 on the eve of the Cuban Revolution.
The memoirs use interviews with journalist Katiuska Blanco because as Castro told Granma:
“I have to take advantage now, because memory fades.”
Fidel Castro stepped aside of his leadership role in 2006 when he was dealing with a “life-threatening illness” and the 85-year-old dictator continues to play a lessening role in public.
Do you think the Fidel Castro memoir series would be an interesting read even if his accounts of what has occurred in Cuba are completely skewed to promote the Communist party?
