MY LIFE

For years, people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Here, finally, Ignacio Ramonet has succeeded. In a series of probing interviews, Fidel Castro describes his life, from the 1950s all the way up to the present day, discussing his parents and earliest influences, the beginnings of the revolution, his relationship with Che, the Bay of Pigs, the Carter years, Cuban migration, his controversial views on everything from human rights to the freedomof the press, and he gives his opinion of other leaders he has dealt with, alive and dead.