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Monday 23 November 2009

All about Cuba -2

I had more luck with the opening instalment of "Playing Castro's Tune", Stephen Evans's sprightly and even-handed Radio 4 documentary about the history of the island's music and the intersection of politics and art. The first episode is still online - just.

Oh, and there's a useful review, by the FT's Latin American editor, of a new study of the twin leaders of the revolution:

I would...have preferred a more sceptical assessment of these two larger than life, driven personalities. Mythmaking, I fear, fosters the misapprehension, from which Latin America has long suffered, of the strong man, the caudillo, as a saviour. The idea that a Castro, a Chávez, or a Perón can alone resolve the complex problems of a modern society in the absence of a stable institutional framework, is an illusion.

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