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Article: Castro's Final Hour: The Secret Story Behind the Coming Downfall of Communist Cuba.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- August 31, 1992
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Castro's Final Hoar: The Secret STORY behind the Coming Downfall ;of Communist Cuba, by Andres Oppenheimer (Simon & Schuster, 461 Lpp., $25)
PULITZER PRIZE-winner Andres Oppenheimer is the best writer on Latin America at the best newspaper in Latin America: the Miami Herald. Through contacts in Cuba, he was able to spend six months of the past two years there, without trading objectivity for access. He was followed by secret police only twice, and the officials he interviewed were aware that he "was not a fellow-traveler, and never pretended to be one." The resulting book is the most complete and objective treatment yet of Cuban society in collapse. It is not a ...