Jan 10, 2017
Santiago de Cuba: On Fidel Castro’s Farewell
“‘I am Fidel’—that was the official watchword for all Cubans mourning the Comandante.”
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is the author of Island People: the Caribbean and the World, and the co-editor, with Rebecca Solnit, of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas. Currently a visiting scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, he lives in New York and in the Caribbean.
“‘I am Fidel’—that was the official watchword for all Cubans mourning the Comandante.”
