The Man Who Risked His Life To Interview Castro | Finding Fidel

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Жыл бұрын

A young cameraman from Canada risks his life to interview Fidel Castro in pre-revolutionary Cuba and launches a career as one of the world's top war cameramen.
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@rexiedenbarrera9077 Жыл бұрын

50 years surviving as war correspondent is a feat by itself. That old camera reminded him where it all began and indeed he came full circle..what a legend

@HAM6BONE9 Жыл бұрын

50 years as a war propagandist* don't get it twisted.

@lorrycamill6502 Жыл бұрын

Fidel Castro looks like Justin Trudeau his father and Mum supported him a lot

@luissmith8559 9 ай бұрын

They didn't have 200 men, they were much less. They told us at school that they made them circle around the camp, so that they would pass in front of this man and so he believed that there were more rebels, then they changed their clothes and hats and that's how they spent the entire time he was there.

@richardclarkson4857 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful documentary

@travieso25 12 күн бұрын

Este singular Hombre, entró en la Historia,y consiguió a un amigo Leal, un gigante de los tiempos contemporáneos Fidel ❤

@juanitagonzalez4221 Жыл бұрын

Boy does his son look just like him

@BLACKBEARD1LL Жыл бұрын

plss make a video about the battle of Manila in WW2..

@huwzebediahthomas9193 Жыл бұрын

This is hidden history. 👍

@pootube2024 Жыл бұрын

Is it true that Justin Trudeau is related to Castro?

@mr.jamster8414 2 ай бұрын

I see the physical resemblance - but Castro started talking up about a New World Order towards the end of his life which makes it seem very unlikely to me.

@Pirate3World Жыл бұрын

Castro is such a complicated figure. Nice to see an old interview with him.

@philipclock Жыл бұрын

Nothing complicated about narcissists.

@mayajigua2087 Жыл бұрын

My family is still suffering the communist he put in power , my grandfather was kill by his brother, I was born and raced in Cuba until my 20 years that I come to USA , all I can tell you is he was a murder they are still so yeah shut up

@katherinecollins4685 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting

@m.pearce3273 Жыл бұрын

Totally loved this time capsule and the revisit with the reporter that broke Fidel Castro to the world and brokered a relationship with Canada that netted me when the State Funeral of our Best Prime Minister ever Pierre Elliot Trudeau. He was a personal friend of mine and I was a porter of his coffin and in the délégué line I was between Fidel Castro and Leonard Cohen. Highly loved this Timeline Video ❤️

@philipclock Жыл бұрын

You a big fan of narcissists, socialists and personality cults?

@elizalopez5403 Жыл бұрын

You must admires dictator with the blood of innocent people in his hands.

@dgonthehill Жыл бұрын

wow ty

@andrewdeen1 Жыл бұрын

another week and no MAD World episode 4.

@renatocamo Жыл бұрын

This is Justin Trudeaus papi.

@Cienfuegos911 2 ай бұрын

I remember hearing the story of this interview from my father who is now deceased. My dad was a journalist and helped run a newspaper in Cienfuegos Cuba. Once it became known that Castro was lying to the Cuban people and was indeed a communist he started working underground to help overthrow the communist regime. He ended up escaping Cuba in a small row boat to avoid being executed. He was lost at sea for a week before a freighter picked him up and bought him to America where he enlisted with the freedom fighters of 2506 to fight in the bay of pigs invasion. Like they mentioned in the interview, Castro was a brilliant man. He used and manipulated these individuals to help his cause. At the time of this interview he didn't have the full support of the world or of the Cuban people and did not have many men or vehicles. However, he strategically held the interview in the mountain and had the few men & vehicles he did have march around in circles giving the journalist and cameraman the impression that he had a mighty army and much support. He purposely used that interview knowing that it would help him gain popularity and support from the U.S. and the world. He knowing used these two individuals to help his cause. When this interviewed aired in the U.S. it helped glamourize, legitimize and popularize the communist regime around the world. Castrol played them both like puppets, the same way he lied and tricked the Cuban people at that time.

@germanikolaas Жыл бұрын

Castro, Mao and other revolutionary leaders of the people, wore Rolex's lol, that's all you need to know about their dispositions about being for the working class.

@nocap2687 Жыл бұрын

🤗

@gottmituns813 Жыл бұрын

Comments as absurd as that one only demonstrate the enormous political stature of a statesman like Fidel.

@kd1s Жыл бұрын

Yeah of course. It's a real shame what happened to Cuba

@MrSatyre1 Жыл бұрын

@@gottmituns813 The only absurd statement I see is yours, defending a mass murderer, hypocrite, narcissist, homophobe and thug.

@PhillyGirl-pt3vq Жыл бұрын

Amen 😅

@mohammedsaysrashid3587 Жыл бұрын

This documentary is activating several questions in the minds ?...if we do not understand a cornerstone of the US political outlooks of its external policies..." Preserving & upgrade of US companies interesting outsiders, everywhere ( involved Cuba )Cuban 🇨🇺 economic annexation to USA companies only ...)which was requested to remain Batista regime or exchange with another new USA Popped authority in Havana .....while Cuban revolution carried independent patriotic state with neutral social reform in its early years...far from US companies greedy & exploiting...So a tyrannical naval embargoed on Cuba 🇨🇺 at least destroyed 3 generations of Cuban peoples utterly. While Cuba is obligated to throw itself into communism world 🌎...USA utterly exploited Caribbean countries politically, economically due to the present communism Cuban neighborhoods of Caribbean countries...

@gottmituns813 Жыл бұрын

Your analysis is rigorous and responds to the historical truth about Cuba.

@luissmith8559 9 ай бұрын

After that interview, the US and the world began to see Fidel as a myth come true. He still has no idea the horrendous damage he did to humanity and Cubans with that interview. When he did that interview, Fidel was just a crazy man on a hill for Cuba and the entire world. Americans are the only idiots who go to countries without knowing the language.

@luissmith8559 9 ай бұрын

Your analysis could not be more twisted and erroneous. North American companies only had a value of 1 billion dollars. However, there were thousands of Cuban businessmen who were murdered and their properties stolen in 1959. Fidel murdered all of his colleagues who asked for democratic elections.

@luissmith8559 9 ай бұрын

The agrarian reform law was so criminal that he stripped his own mother of all his property, and the mother of his first son Dias Balar of all his property. She is still alive, protected by Raúl Castro. That is why when you are not Cuban or speak Spanish, do not give an opinion because you automatically become an accomplice of the crimes against humanity perpetrated by Fidel.

@luissmith8559 9 ай бұрын

And the embargo is a measure that we Cubans approve, because only Fidel used the money for state terrorism and racial segregation. Nothing that Fidel's books say is true, because those who were there have taken it upon themselves to tell us all the true, everything about Fidel is a big lie. You know absolutely nothing about Cuba.

@punchy1325 Жыл бұрын

Risked his life 🤣🤣🤣 he was fine and well protected and set him up for the future he had, which was quite an adventure, and he earned alot of money doing it 😉

@YosiNaturalGuerrera Жыл бұрын

I said the same thing!!!! So much Hypocrisy when these fellows know they are going to EARN MONEY in the future, they TALK BAD or good depending on the terms their Country is with other #Nations Especially when it comes to My Country #Cuba they LOVED THIS TOPIC #CAPITALISM vs #COMUNISM IT NEVER ENDS BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY HAD IT USING #PROPAGANDA

@punchy1325 Жыл бұрын

@@YosiNaturalGuerrera 100%

@luissmith8559 9 ай бұрын

This man is responsible for communist indoctrination in American schools. Keep in mind that all the people he interviewed are communist dictators who murdered tens of millions of human beings. Until they realized that they had to conquer the media and schools to destroy American democracy from within by indoctrinating new generations@@YosiNaturalGuerrera

@luissmith8559 9 ай бұрын

@@YosiNaturalGuerrera After that interview, the US and the world began to see Fidel as a myth come true. He still has no idea the horrendous damage he did to humanity and Cubans with that interview. When he did that interview, Fidel was just a crazy man on a hill for Cuba and the entire world. Americans are the only idiots who go to countries without knowing the language.

Жыл бұрын

Che looks like a cool rocker dude

@MrSatyre1 Жыл бұрын

"Looks like". Fortunately most rockers aren't mass murderers.

Жыл бұрын

@@MrSatyre1 yes we're

@BubbyBold Жыл бұрын

@@MrSatyre1 Che was more of a man than you'll ever be

@philipclock Жыл бұрын

@@BubbyBold And you?

@luissmith8559 9 ай бұрын

@huwzebediahthomas9193 Жыл бұрын

It is so ironic that he loved baseball.

@MrTaxiRob Жыл бұрын

and Coca-Cola... you can't make a proper Cuba Libre without it.

@gottmituns813 Жыл бұрын

Why? baseball was born in Cuba.

@javierbarrera9805 Жыл бұрын

@@gottmituns813 no it wasn't

@MozartOfComedy Жыл бұрын

@@gottmituns813 Baseball.if from USA

@AngelGonzalez-pd4cn Жыл бұрын

He was bad at baseball, what he played well was basketball. I am Cuban I know.

@colinbeck1285 Жыл бұрын

Once Castro bought a used car from Richard Nixon he never looked back. Castro industrialized Cuba through several 5 year plans based on "used cars & cheap cigars." Today everybody in Cuba has free medical care and a free education. When Castro was at the end of his rope he joined the P.T. Barnum & Bailey Circus and toured Cuba as "the incredible shrinking man." Made a fortune and took it with him! Sheer genius!

@PhillyGirl-pt3vq Жыл бұрын

Castro was a vile SOB. Sad that any attempt to take him out failed. I’m sure nothing is different for the people of Cuba now, either. 😢🙏🏻

@HAM6BONE9 Жыл бұрын

he was and is a global hero and accomplished more for his people than you will ever accomplish for yourself. cry mad.

@gottmituns813 Жыл бұрын

When someone stands before his people to face the hegemonic power in the world and assume all the consequences in the defense of his small homeland, he can only be called a hero.

@HAM6BONE9 Жыл бұрын

@@gottmituns813 couldn’t have said it better myself

@philipclock Жыл бұрын

@@HAM6BONE9 Like what?

@philipclock Жыл бұрын

@@gottmituns813 ...supported by communist Russia, two faced western libs and all kinds of dark money. Lived a life of leisure and mansions ripped off from families, hundreds of millions in overseas bank accounts, jumped the bones of whoever he wanted; tyrannical control, keeping the Cuban people in poverty and fear. A true woke hero.

@historicalcucumber Жыл бұрын

Fidel is Trudeau's father....he is the spitting image of Castro and his mother visited Fidel in Cuba around the time she conceived.

@joanr3189 2 ай бұрын

Oh grow up!

@joaobuzato8376 Жыл бұрын

The Fidel first answer was already a lie...so It would be waist of time to see It through...

@troynov1965 Жыл бұрын

You can tell when Castro is telling a lie , his lips are moving.

@YosiNaturalGuerrera Жыл бұрын

I can tell you liked #Fidel he was a good man that did achieve the Freedom of #Cuba Nobody is perfect so I don't know why people expected him to be, of course, it was The US propaganda for gready ambition interested @CubanaNaturalVegan #OffGrid #Simplicity #NaturalHeathyLife is the right way to live

@philipclock Жыл бұрын

Fidel overthrew a man of color for his white supremecist tyranny.

@YosiNaturalGuerrera Жыл бұрын

@@philipclock You need to STOP your #FraudPropaganda against #HeroFidel you #EvilEnvy eaither way #CubaOriginsAreIndigenas and a lot of us STILL CARRY THE #ADN no matter if we are mix #WeAreStillHere

@javierbarrera9805 Жыл бұрын

Long live Fidel.

@gaylecheung3087 Жыл бұрын

Pierre Elliot Trudeau

@jorgecabrera3541 10 ай бұрын

I’m sorry you ever set eyes on Castro I’m in exile for 59 years because of that I have no words to describe it I have to say it because he snot human a human does not do what he’s done to Cuba and it’s people I pray to God this nightmare that came to be 64 years 8 months and 19 days to end God have mercy on my homeland and my brothers and sisters❤😢❤

@frosbittenmelon2247 8 ай бұрын

hahahahahaha owned