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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsCuba: Castro vs the World
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id you know that Fidel
Castro was a fan of Peter
Benchley’s Jaws? As he saw
it, the book was a Marxist
metaphor highlighting the
uncaring heart of capitalism. The
dollars-for-eyes mayor of Amity
refuses to lock down the shark-
terrorised beaches because he puts the
local economy above the safety of its
residents. A certain modern parallel
writes itself; suffice to say, the Cuban
leader’s approach to Covid wouldn’t
have been hard to guess.Castro’s enthusiasm for Jaws is also
illustrative of the first-rate details
peppered through Cuba: Castro vs the
World. If a straightforward history
documentary is only as good as its
interviewees, this one had ex-Cuban
Intelligence guys, former anti-Castro
fighters, men who fought with
Che Guevara in Bolivia, and even
Gorbachev’s interpreter to shed light
on the Castro era. By the end you were
almost surprised his dentist hadn’t
shown up to explain how toothache
led to the Cuban revolution.
It meant that even an account of the
endlessly retold Cuban missile crisis of
1961 came with surprises. We know
about President Kennedy’s humiliation
at the Bay of Pigs, but perhaps not the
experiences of his ground troops
actually taking part in the invasion.
Napoleon Vilaboa, a Cuban anti-
Castro fighter, recalled how he
disguised himself as a pro-Castro
soldier to escape capture — initially
successful, except that he couldn’t find
the right army boots to swap into.
“They discovered me because of my
boots; they were a completely different
colour to mine.” Incarceration awaited.
Such fascinating first-hand colour.
This is history worthy of a Ken Burns
epic, so the only complaint is that it’s
just two parts. The Bay of Pigs and the
Cuban missile crisis were dealt with in
a crisp ten minutes before things
cantered on to Cuba’s connectionswith Algeria and Guevara’s ill-fated
exploits in the Congo — all thorough
yet brief at the same time.
As for Castro, the programme risked
conveying a sneaking admiration for
him. Footage showed him winning the
liberation war in Angola and as you
started to crave a Cuban cigar, here was
a survivor whose ideals never wavered
on the whims of political weather.
Perhaps the torture, persecution and
poverty will come next week.
If there were an award for best
lighting in a TV programme this
month, Little Birds would walk it. The
new series, about a young American
socialite’s sexual liberation in 1955
Tangier, looks ravishing. Upmarket
riads were bathed in reds, blues and
stylish shadows; sultry nightclubs
swirled with spotlights flashing against
zebra-print throws.
The show is an interior designer’s
wet dream, but what about the rest of
us? Despite Juno Temple’s talent at
playing the wide-eyed sexual dynamo,
and a fun Hugh Skinner as her
painfully closeted aristo husband, it’s
so far a bit hard to care about anyone.
However, things should hot up —
being based on Anaïs Nin erotica, this
is not a series you’d accuse of being
timid. The risqué bits have already
featured much canine-obsessed S&M,
including a bit of micturition, art deco-
style, in a swanky brothel. Different
Castro’s ideals never wavered on the whims of political weather strokes for different folks, perhaps.Enough colour to make you crave a Cuban cigar
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