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Fidel Castro Part 7: Che Guevara in the Jungle

2025/6/10
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Alex von Tunzelmann
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Carlos Eire
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Ileana Yarza
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Juanita Castro
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Lillian Guerra
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Michael Bustamante
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Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
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Paul McGann (Narrator)
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Peter Kornbluh
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Juanita Castro: 我无法再对古巴发生的事情保持沉默，我的兄弟们把它变成了一个巨大的水上监狱。我曾经是菲德尔的坚定支持者，甚至为他走私武器，但现在我不得不逃离我的祖国，因为我无法忍受那里正在发生的事情。

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Juanita, Fidel Castro's sister, defects from Cuba, denouncing it as a prison. The episode then explores Fidel's attempts to create a 'new Cuban' through revolutionary ideology and social programs, contrasting the idealistic goals with the authoritarian methods employed.
  • Juanita Castro's defection highlights the repressive nature of Castro's regime.
  • Fidel Castro's aim to create a 'new Cuban' involved extensive social engineering and indoctrination.
  • Castro's revolutionary project involved transforming the individual through education and social reforms.

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Castro sets out to create a breed of “new people” - turning Cuba into an island of mini-Fidels. A particular dairy cow becomes a national treasure and hot dog vendors are declared counter-revolutionary, as things get surreal. Fidel’s own sister flees, declaring Cuba a “floating prison”. And as one of the dictator’s right-hand men is killed, the revolution will be rocked to its foundations…

A Noiser podcast production.

Narrated by Paul McGann.

Featuring Michael Bustamante, Carlos Eire, Lillian Guerra, Peter Kornbluh, Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, Alex von Tunzelmann, Ileana Yarza.

This is Part 7 of 10.

Written by Edward White | Produced by Ed Baranski and Edward White | Exec produced by Joel Duddell | Sound supervisor: Tom Pink | Sound design & audio editing by George Tapp | Assembly editing by Dorry Macaulay, Anisha Deva | Compositions by Oliver Baines, Dorry Macaulay, Tom Pink | Mix & mastering: Cian Ryan-Morgan | Recording engineer: Joseph McGann.

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