Posted AT 12:05 AM EDT on 23/02/08
Castro's chance close but no cigar
LONDON — When he was imprisoned on the Isle of Pines in the early 1950s for insurrection against his island's dictatorial regime, Fidel Castro bided his time reading the political works that would inspire him to overthrow that government and become his country's leader.
No, he was not moved by Das Kapital or Lenin's writings, whatever he may have claimed later.
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