Castro has a great sense of humor and gives great interviews. In one of the interviews you mention, he is asked whether there could be a socialist revolution in the U.S. He denies the possibility citing the undermining power of advertising on Americans' ability to desire something (for example, social revolution) and pursue unswervingly. "How can they?" I remember him asking, "When they are being told every five minutes that they want something else, and something else..."
Joanna
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
The Fidel Castro article I referred to was actually by Fernando Morais, in Penthouse, December 1978 issue (a collector's item these days). Tad Szulc wrote mainly on American subversion of foreign governments as I recall, although he later also published a biography of Castro. Oui magazine also featured an interview with Castro in January 1975. Playboy published an interview with Castro by Lee Lockwood (pseud.) in January 1967 and again in August 1985. Here's an excerpt from the 1985 interview: PLAYBOY: Let's end on a note of imagination. Here is something truly wonderful from your point of view: Suppose the U.S. canceled Latin America's foreign debt, as you propose, and offered substantial aid to boot - in other words, offered to treat the hemisphere with the fairness you think it deserves. What would you do then? Reassess your views? CASTRO: If the United States were to spontaneously do what you say - if such an inherently selfish, neocolonialist system were capable of that generosity - a real miracle would have taken place, and I would have to start meditating on that phenomenon. I might even have to consult some theologians and revise some of my opinions in that field. If that were to happen, I might even enter a monastery.
:-)
Jurriaan
