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Richard Gott

Richard Gott

Richard Gott is the author of Cuba: A New History (Yale University Press, 2005); Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution (Verso, 2005); and Guerrilla Movements in Latin America (Seagull Books, new edition, 2007)

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Fidel remembered: a view of the Cuban revolution

Fidel Castro announced his retirement on 19 February 2008. Both the fifty-year experience of the Cuba revolution and current trends in Latin America confirm the "maximo líder" as one of the great figures in modern world politics, says Richard Gott.