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.”

    8 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.

    5 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.  

    16 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Walking in Cuba

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

    4 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.

    5 minutes