From the archives: Fidel Castro's 1959 interview on "Face the Nation" after seizing power in Cuba
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- Опубліковано 31 гру 2022
- Shortly after the Cuban Revolution of Jan. 1, 1959, Fidel Castro, then-leader of Cuba's provisional government, appeared on a special edition of "Face the Nation." CBS News correspondent, Stuart Novins, moderated the discussion from CMQ television studios in Havana, Cuba, that broadcasted on Jan. 11, 1959.
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He is 33 year old on 1959
The guy died 90 year old in 2016
He lived through many events in history. Ww2, korean war, cold war, Vietnam, iraq war, 9/11, war on terror !!
We can all agree that everyone hates America especially me who lived the war during iraq when i was running to my mum because America was throwing bombs on my city
Também viveu o 11 de Setembro de 1973... Esse sim é o verdadeiro 11 de Setembro.
@@luisfilipe316What do you mean “real 9/11”? You can say the September 11th that nobody talks about, but 9/11/2001 was a very real day that countless people experienced.
Otro evento Guerra de Angola, Cuba derroto a los Sudafricanos blancos del aparteid
Fidel looks absolutely relaxed despite the situation...
That is how evil pathological liars behave....take Hillary Clinton for example
I'm from the Caribbean and I can tell you, he was relaxed because their revolution stopped the corruption. But the corruption was from American business interests after the Spanish American war. If you ever travel to Cuba, which I hope you do, you will find the safest nation you have ever been in and people genuinely happy even though their lives are hard because of the United States. Even tourists can walk down the road anywhere at 2am with zero risk of danger, can't say that about the US.
Too relaxed. Didn't answer the questions straight and had a hard time expressing himself. Said he planned for free elections in 18 months and that Cuba would be "free", one big lie in hindsight
So, did Ted Bundy.
@@RobertDooley-sl7cp and I am an American who suffered from Fidel Castro's communist paradise for 25 years and I can tell you that Cuba had problems before Castro became a dictator and destroyed the country but Cuba in the 1950s was second only to America in Economic development and standard of living ( income, Healthcare, education ) surpassing every other country in the Americas.
*Wow! This is an amazing footage.*
What would the Americans know about democracy
What would the Amerixans know about democracy well let's see here. If you were in Cuba and made that comment online against the Cuban government it is quite likely you would be tracked down and jailed without charge or trial.
Just to prove the point I will go in record to denounce Joe Biden as a senile puppet of God only knows who.
In spite of the fact that the President of the United States is the most powerful single person on earth, I do this with no fear of his henchmen tracking me down and throwing me in a dark hole to rot. The same could not be said of the likes of Fidel Castro.
What the leader of the free world actually looks like.
What people on jan 6th actually wished they could have done.
@@rod653unless there is literal widespread voter fraud then yes but there is literally hardly any evidence except for *maybe* one
What an absolutely ignorant comment.
The dace of democracy is a communist dictator who took power by force of arms and never was elected to office in a free and fair election where outside observers were allowed. He held on to dictatorial power for decades. Fidel Castro also has been said to have " overthrown American imperialism" in Cuba. He merely replaced American "imperialism" with Soviet imperialism.
Castro sold out his country and its people to the Soviet Union and became an agent of Soviet Imperialism, sacrificeing thousands of Cuban soldiers in Soviet Proxy wars in places like Angola, Mozambique and Southwest Africa. The Soviet Union wanted to get its hot little hands on Southern Africa; namely the vast mineral resorces of South Acrica, Rhodesia, etc. The Soviets used Cuban troops so as to not be caught red handed in its Imperialist adjenda. So like a good puppet Castro sent Cubans to fight and die in these Soviet wars of imperialist agression against the West. The proof is in basic ecconomics. Cuba has a population of around eleven million and a GDP that is roughly the size of the GDP of Mississippi. Yet somehow with a tiny economy in shambles Cuba supposidly sent Military forces half way aroind the world to fight "wars of liberation" . Clearly someone else was paying the bills, and that somebody was the Soviet Union. Also since 1959 around 2.3 to 2.7 million Cubans have risked their lives to leave the " face of democracy". Give or take that number is give or take equal to 25% of the current population of Cuba, and that number grows every day with no end in sight. This does not look like numbers associated with the "face of democracy:.
@rod653
@@danrhinehart1134 im not going to read all that, so thank you or sorry that happened to you.
U.S. kept calling Castro a Communist, which he was not in 1959. If anything, he was a nationalist. After the U.S. ignored him then he became a Communist.
You are correct, Raul was specifically involved with reading the teachings of Marx and was helping advice Fidel with the people of communist economic policies. However, not that you’re insinuating, but what is wrong with being a communist?
@@sprokow go to every communist country in the world and find out for yourself lmao
ua-cam.com/video/wxL-2gaUjPw/v-deo.html "Y que hayamos hecho una revolución socialista en la propia nariz de los Estados Unidos." (And that we have made a socialist revolution under the nose of the United States.) He was a communist/socialist the entire time, but didn't reveal it until later
Raul and Ché def were communists.
Ignored is one way to put it! The US launched a full economic war by 1960, and sent an invasion of mercenaries by 1961. Castro didn't declare the revolution to be communist until later (I think in 1963, or late 62).
But to be fair, many historians think that his plan was to move the revolution in a communist direction well before the overt hostility from the United States. I'm currently reading Samuel Farber's "Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered," and he makes a pretty compelling case that the tendency of U.S. and Western historians to view Castro's turn to communism as being caused by U.S. policy post-1959 as fallacious and short sighted. Such interpretations, he argues, deny the convictions, long-term planning and especially the agency of the leaders of the July 26th Movement.
Not that U.S. policy and behavior towards Latin America was not a decisive influence on the direction that Castro took the revolution. The history of U.S. policy towards republican Cuba, as well as observations of U.S. intervention in Guatemala in 1954, convinced him and the other leaders of exactly what they could expect from the North Americans. U.S. policy after 1959 only served to confirm what they already believed.
It is after all kind of absurdly self-focused for North Americans to think that Castro would just completely change his philosophy and understanding of capitalism in a few months or a year just because of U.S. treatment-- when that treatment is exactly what the revolutionaries would have expected the United States to do in the first place! That version of the story really doesn't do justice to the intelligence and autonomous agency of the revolutionaries, as well as the Cuban people themselves.
More time passes more he doesn’t seem like a lunatic anymore
Only americans think he was a lunatic ..
Because he wasn't a lunatic. He was smart, caring, kind, and overall just pretty awesome. The US has no pants and a very bad burn from how much they've lied about not only Fidel, but literally every world leader that's opposed them in any way (and ones that they've worked with too. Remember Pol Pot? US and UK loved him)
@@fireabyss5147 and cubans... but ok?
@@13wayz70 Gusano's* that were mad he took away their plantations and casinos
@@odintheprole6068 it was a military takeover and they took everything. and your communist sentiment wont change what happened
Liam Neeson looked good in 1959.
Liam Neeson was 7 in 1959
Many thanks for this historic event
Happy new year
Many wishes from Athens
Happy new year
From south italy una fazza una razza
We need a fidel castro biopic in 2027. This movie should be similar to malcolm x and mlk. It should have details of fidel castro days in cuba. reply
Looks kinda like Liam Nesson in the thumbnail. Lol
A very intelligent & enigmatic man. He stood up to the American regime, and persevered.
HAVE A CIGAR YOU'RE GONNA GO FAR
You're gonna fly, you're never gonna die
You're gonna make it if you try, they're gonna love you
@@PaulGaitherIf we all pull together as a team!
@@wildcardartsent - that isn't the next line...
@@PaulGaither You gotta do what Randall "Pink" Floyd wants to do!
Rosebud baby
I saw the thumbnail and thought it was Shia
I saw this dumb comment and think you need to amputate a finger for Shia (anyone will compensate)
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This man had sacrifice everything to free Cuba a man who gives his people free healthcare, education, housing, in this how we repay him.
People believe America narratives !
What a leader great man
Great leaders jail and torture political opponents? Makes you appreciate democracy right?
Psycho
Castro sounds like Jose Jimenez!!😅
He came to KCMO a lot and I sat and talked to him about Nakita. #national
Castro came to Kansas city a lot?
@@michaele.stovall6364 he came after the changes were made illegally. He use to live in Kansas City, Illinois. #national
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I’m not gonna lie something about a white guy with an American accent with a suit and tie telling us in non western countries about “freedom this and democracy that” makes me cringe.
How is Cuba a non western country?
@@ernglez4390 well Cuba is a non western country
@@intello8953 it depends on how you define it. Geographically it is in the Western Hemisphere. Politically you might have a point due to the Communist ideology, let me remind you that before 1959 Cuba was a very prosperous Capitalist country (in the Latin American context), and before Batista it was a Western democracy. This megalomaniac tyrant replaced a Dictator by himself and destroyed Cuba.
@@ernglez4390 why is he a “megalomaniac”? Didn’t he overthrow a dictatorship which the US government was funding with arms and money? The people hated Batista right? So they wanted this Revolution. Right now I’m reading a book on kindle on Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution and the aftermath of it. Because I always heard of Castro but didn’t care about Castro, Cuba or communism but now I’m very curious. In this interview he doesn’t seem like a very evil communist guy haha
Dude looks a lot like Liam Neeson.
Look its Justin's dad...
This hirsute hero would never order his people to wear masks.
Viva Cuba libre! Viva el 26!
He looks like Justin Trudeau
No stress. No English. But, two watches... Roll on ! Caramba ! 😂👍
does anyone know why fidel wears 2 watches ?
Not entirely confirmed as to why, but the main theories I have seen either say it's because it's a battlefield tradition to wear 2 watches in case one stops working. The other theory it's so that he had an overview of different time zones being Moscow and Havana's time zones.
He bears a striking resemblance to Justin Trudeau
How come he spoke English well?
Imagine that. It's like he learned it on his own or something 🤯
How else was he going to bed Trudeau's Mom?
I mean. Still prob way harder to do than it was to get your mom to say yes to your unfortunate father. 😅 happy new year lol
CIA
He had a professional baseball contra t from usa too
No one ever figured out what he was smoking in those cigars that would lead him to believe he was going to import russian missile components right in front of JFK....
Wateva he was smoking he survived
He was smoking that JFK pack
Not loud enough!!!!!
American media helped springboard the revolution...
Booohoooo let me play a sad song for you on the worlds smallest violin
You say that like the Revolution wasn't fought for genuine reasons. Co-optation of revolutions is nothing new or unique to Cuba, but that doesn't invalidate the reasons or grievances that led to the revolution
i see so much peace, calmness and truthness in those eyes. oh my god
16:10 "I'm not (a) communist at all"
Capitalist: Fidel Castro, will you sell your beard for $25,000?
Socialist: no, what is wrong with you?
Never realized this guy looks like Messi. He spoke English because he was a privilege kid in Cuba. He actually pitched for the senators in Washington DC
@@footballcoreanoMessi is straight up Italian. Heard he could've played for Italy but I'm not sure about Fidel. I'm watching a documentary on Netflix and it said his father was from Catalonia in Spain.
@@christophersafedis8158his dad was from Galicia 🦾
@@christophersafedis8158Messi has Spanish heritage. He's not 100% Italian. That said, northern Italy and the Iberia peninsula do share some heritage. Fidel was exclusively Spanish.
COMRADE Fidel Castro. Revolutionary Leader...
I like his beard ❤❤❤
Trudeau's daddy
Who's your daddy. Just curious.
@@Andres_Ito23 stop with the deflection
Lol no deflection. I was seriously just curious. I have no daddy. Im not a liberal flower so dont worry buddy.
@@Andres_Ito23 Castro looks like Turdeau's father
@Marco Polo it is. Go look at where his mother's boat was for 30 days magically roughly 9 months before Justin's birth. These elites have special arrangements and this was about securing their future.
The Revolution lives!
Only in your mind!!!!!!
El ingles de Castro ni el lo entendia.
The Fidel Castro smoke cigars..I'm wondering what kind did he smoke live until 90 years old
Fidel Castro at around 11 minute: "All political parties will be allowed to run or we are not a democracy" - Well, that was a lie, as we now know
I am almost 50 and I never saw him speaking in English. Not saying he didn’t , just saying I never 😮
hes fluent in english if you didnt know ,
Dude was freaking smart.
A real leader.
A real killer
@@kahanakahuna1470 he had to be a killer to kick out all of the gangsters .
@@ethanddog31 Yet, his killing spree continued for decades.
Cubans disagree
@@groverkennedy2049 Cubans can't have an opinion.
As i watched this video I realized that Not a single word was TRUE NEVER Did Anything that he spoke about! Lies Lies Lies, look at Cuba Today. Rest my case.
Not true at all, Castro did a lot of things for Cuban people
@@Bugg1290 Huh? He destroyed the entire country…what planet do you live on?
That disgusting lie of his about allowing OTHER political parties to run in actual free elections...Yeah, we know he never allowed that. Funny when he says people tire when leaders stay too long, hahaha, what a liar.
Respect for this big men!
Rest in peace whit you kamerads.
Viva Cuba Viva Castro Viva Che.....
Rip Castro🙏
HE I$ THE GUDGE :;/
YOU DId NT
KNOw :; /
Viva a revolução CUBANA 🇵🇹🇨🇺✌️✌️
Columbo
Fidel siempre será eterno.
KKE🎉🎉🎉
He was in favor of democracy and free elections in 18 months! Really? That is why my father and all family left Cuba in 1960!! My father was not wrong..
I looked a bit into Fidel and his rise to power out of boredom, and to understand why such a vilified person from our POV would be held in such high regard by many others. From reading and watching his rise to power, one can easily come to the conclusion that Fidel really did care for his people and gave everything he had for his version of "freedom", for them.
Fidel didn't want Cuba to remain being exploited by American National Interests justifiably, he accomplished this. But without realizing it Cuba slowly became a pawn for Russia and completely isolated from the United States. Russian financial support stopped after the fall of the Soviet Union and an unrepairable relationship with U.S., Cuba was truly independent.
All that was left behind was Russian communist ideologies and trade embargos. Fidel's intent was pure, but he didnt have the foresight to see where he was taking Cuba.
All in all, putting personal beliefs aside, respect to the man for what he managed to accomplish.
They did well to leave, because starting in 1959 the Cuban people began to lose their freedoms under the worst tyranny that republican Cuba has suffered: the tyranny of Fidel Castro. Never again have Cubans been free.
@@theclos16i was born in Cuba left at 8 yrs old. I did some search as well & came to this conclusion. What I don’t understand is why didn’t he figure some other way out if he knew he was being used by the Russians? He continued allied to the Russians and spread their ideology.
@@1futur334 as someone of Cuban descent and a Latin-American studies major, there isn't a simple answer to your question. While it became clear to Che Guevara after the Missile Crisis that the USSR and thus began to favor support from China and the Maoists, the Castro brothers felt differently. They grew committed to Stalinism, and did not believe the USSR was using them. This difference in view was actually what led Guevara and Castro to go their seperate ways.
The truth is that Castro was likely too blinded by his ideological spiral into Communism and fears of US invasion to realize that the USSR was no better in its imperialist tendencies and foreign manipulation.
Why Castro was so committed to Stalinist ideology is another complicated question. The best way to understand why he stuck to it is read his own words. If you don't want to do that, there are a number of more broad Cuban history books that I'd highly recommend.
Muta msjne bruda fidel castro chegevra kinda vojs chersiz selim emini akele vlladimir putin akelen
Save me, Fidel
yes go to usa to be saved
Viva Fidel...
I LOVE A FIDEL
B®E@THED LIVED :; /
LUVED :; /
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This guy was bob marley of cuba
No.
@@fireabyss5147 I mean he looks like.
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He has Manson looks in his eyes but murdered a lot of protesters and Business Owners and military men in Moncada and Police
officers and city politicians and lawyers
Bloody knave..
Don’t Bully DR Castro Please Americano’s ( There’s No Need to be rude , afterall, you asked The Question Americano PS : Alvarez: Commandos. ( Just be fair Americanos Please✍️. Thankyou👍
Huh..... so many questions. Like why are they showing this..... and I thought caso was a mean evil man..... he don't look horrible at all. But is hard to judge a book by in cover
He's wasn't evil! White Cubans ( Spanaids) were hoarding all the wealth and power from Capitalism and restricting access to brown and black Hispanics and the reason he kicked their azzes out and adopted the Communist ideology! Castro's heart was in the right place but unfortunately later on (The Cuban Missile Crisis) his brain wasn't! The Descendants of those exiled White Cubans set up shop in Southern Florida and are as Racist as any Ofay from Mississippi! 👌
He was not an evil man. It's literally red scare American propaganda.
Anyone can appear good in a media interview… come on.
Because he was not evil. He was devoted to the sovereignty and independence and well being of the Cuban people.
Fidel: yes, all the opposition can run for the open elections. We fought for democracy…
After over 50 years and several political executed victims later, he dies on power shaking the popes hand.
Almost as bad as Biden
1 Year old this video is and such all the comments here. Whoever reads this just know that almost every comment here is of non cubans thus they do not know the struggles the cuban people went thru with batista and every other leader who took advantage of the cuban ppl during very hard periods of their lives like Castro. I am cuban born and raised in a cuban household, and Ill tell you now that the situations that happened to cuba are non other than the self oppointed ppl in power fault, yes my ppl have at fault to for believing someone that they thought can make the nation better, but what can you do when you are a struggling nation trying to make ends meet and not seeing the economy thats entering the country in your household thus many familys struggling to find something to eat while the rich and wealthy of both US and Cuba enjoy while the rest rot, this is when the ppl are subject to believe anyone with idealistic ideas for a better future, funny enough castro was part of the rich who enjoyed cuba during batistas regime, he studied in us i believe harverd and his family had wealth in the US. At times of hardship is easy to manipulate the masses. Of course this isnt Castro only fault or the leaders before that we cant speak of Castro without the USA. Yes the US played a major role in everything that happened in Cuba, the Influx of economic boom in cuba when batista was in power was from US enterprises and US criminal organizations, the CIA new of all this but did nothing, just enjoyed controlling a country from the shadows, making many americans after Castro took power think he was the demon of the caribbean after he took all the corruption the US implanted in cuba away. The US could have had Cuba as state after the spanish american war instead they rejected the offer and instead placed themselves in the constitution of cuba and gave it away. At the end of the day my ppl are tired of corruption, that is why nobody now a days do nothing just live their lives how it is. Maybe one day I can see my country free, I hope I live to see it .
Nice to see a comment from someone who actually has experience on the subject, the rest of this comment section is a cesspool.
Evil man and horrible story. The stories of old Cubans that came in that first wave will haunt me. Fidel put them through some evil moments. He’s more a murderer than leader
Yes!!!!
Which ones? The first wave that ran in '58 because they supported Batista??
@@TrexAintaChicken 1st off not everyone supported Batista, they had to leave cause of a country war torn. My grandfather was a medical student in the late 50s. He had friends killed just cause they didn’t want to help Fidel’s men who were injured. Not because of supporting Batista. If you don’t support Trump that doesn’t mean you support Biden. Or vice versa. They had to leave cause Fidel tricked everyone. At first majority were with Fidel but he started showing his true colors with the communism and totalitarianism . Fidel burned down small towns to take control of agriculture etc. Fidel ruined what was once considered the Paris of the Western Hemisphere
@@TrexAintaChicken im the grandson of a first gen Cuban political refugee , had family incarcerated for years until the 80s, Fidel ruined peoples lives. While his family is out on their yachts and living lavish lifestyles the country starves.
@@pacovillafane80 I am aware of what his family lives like. I've seen the photos of his idiot grandson on their yacht. But again, I'm asking what you mean by first gen. Are you referring to those that left in '58, in '61, what?
USA 💕💕🇺🇲
USgAy💕
Love the USA from Cuba hope soon Cuba and the USA can become allies and fight against imperialist like china
Never ask a woman her weight, a man his salary, or a tankie about Castro’s position on LGBTQ
He reversed those policies and was better on LGBTQ issues than the US was by the 1980's
Hahahaha what? So 1900's USA was a better place for lgtbq people? Atleast Fidel tried to right his wrongs
Welcome to Latin America in the mid 20th century. It isn't exactly shocking
A master manipulator. Megalomaniac. He is mocking every person there.
impresionante Fidel onbre real muy pocos como fuistes ❤