The Cuban leader visited New York City five times,speaking at the United Nations, sparring with Giuliani and spending time with genuine people’ in HarlemHe might have been an enemy of the state, and but from a lengthy honeymoon to a midnight assembly with Malcolm X to the adulation of cheering crowds,Fidel Castro found plenty to savour on American soil.
The Cuban communist – who was repeatedly targeted for assassination by the CIA visited New York five times during his five decades in power. As the city’s Daily News set it on Saturday, he had a “love-abominate relationship” with the centre of global capitalism. Related: Castro claimed he tricked the New York Times – but we may be the genuine dupes Related: 'I am the revolution': Fidel Castro’s tools of personality cult and propaganda Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com