Cuba and Fidel Castro: Beyond his 86th Birthday Monday 13 August 2012, by Arturo Lopez-Levy - The Havana Note Regardless of how long he lives, Fidel Castro has an influential role in shaping the political discourse in Cuba. Fidel skillfully mixed Marxism and nationalism and made a revolution that changed the history not only of Cuba but also of the whole Western hemisphere. He was the most popular leader in a generation of Cubans, a political giant who reached world dimensions during the Cold War. As professor Jorge Dominguez from Harvard University said, If there have been competitive elections in the early 1960’s, Castro could have won them all. He didnt have the chance. In the most difficult moments of the Cold War, the United States, as the hegemonic power in the Americas, didnt have tolerance for a nationalist leader who aspired to an independent neutralist course not to mention a socialist one, no matter how popular Castro was among his people.
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