HAVANA, Cuba, CMC- Seven years after the dying of Fidel Castro, a brand new e book – ‘I’m Fidel,’ paying homage to the revolutionary chief, was launched right here this week.
The e book is an homage by the younger generations to the person whom the Cuban individuals waved goodbye in November 2016, whereas 4 days later—November 30– crowds escorted his mortal stays to relaxation at Santiago de Cuba Santa Ifigenia cemetery, stated the vice-director of the Workplace of Historic Affairs of the Cuban Presidency, Every day Sanchez as she launched the e book at Havana’s Jose Marti Memorial.
E-book writer and journalist Wilmer Rodriguez prolonged his gratitude to the gathering individuals, significantly Insurgent Military Commander Delio Gomez.
Rodriguez recalled that the e book follows a historic and literary work began by journalist Luis Baez twenty years in the past and by different authors who accomplished 95 tales.
Many of the 95 testimonies have been a part of the writer’s archives, together with interviews with individuals who had met Fidel in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Ecuador.
Castro led Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving because the prime minister from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008.
Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he additionally served as the primary secretary of the Communist Celebration of Cuba from 1965 till 2011. Underneath his administration, Cuba turned a one-party communist state.
The longest-serving non-royal head of state within the twentieth and twenty first centuries, Castro died on November 25, 2016, at 90.
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