Tag: Fidel Castro

  • Nation & World

    Portrait of the revolutionary as a young man

    Jonathan M. Hansen’s biography of Fidel Castro’s early years aims to “get past the demonization and celebration and recover the complex person in the middle.”

    6–10 minutes
    Young Fidel Castro in 1957.
  • Nation & World

    Out of ‘the wolf’s mouth’

    Cuban writer and journalist Jorge Olivera is a dissident who was sentenced to prison and eventually released on humanitarian grounds. He’s now a Scholar at Risk hosted by Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature.

    4–6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Cuba under Fidel’s long shadow

    The Gazette interviewed Jorge Dominguez, Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico and a prominent expert on Cuba, about Fidel Castro’s mixed legacy, and the Cuban Revolution.  

    12–19 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Walking in Cuba

    A historian’s photographs expose the sedimentary layers of Cuba, a country in flux.

    3–5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Answers from Walters

    Barbara Walters reflected on her 50-year career in journalism with David Gergen at Harvard Kennedy School Tuesday evening.

    4–6 minutes