Primary Sources: People: Castro, Fidel

This database includes speeches, interviews, etc., by Fidel Castro from 1959 to 1996 translated into English.
From the Latin American Network Information Center at the University of Texas.

Speeches and interventions by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba translated via Google Translate

FIDEL CASTRO
World Affairs
Vol. 143, No. 1 (Summer 1980), pp. 20-64

Letter from Fidel Castro in the Cuban newspaper Granma , February 19, 2008 via the Council on Foreign Relations website.

A collection of images provided by the BBC.

Simon Malley and Fidel Castro
MERIP Reports
No. 62 (Nov., 1977), pp. 23+26

"Fidel Castro speaks to the General Assembly at the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations on October 22, 1995 at the Abyssinian Church in Harlem, New York City."

"When this document was delivered to the world by Fidel Castro and the people of revolutionary Cuba, it was February 4, 1962, ‘Year of Planning." Cuba, through the manipulations of the United States, had just been expelled from the Organization of American States at the Punta del Este Conference. This confrontation had underscored three major crises which had been coming to a head on three separate fronts..."

Barbara Walters and Fidel Castro
Foreign Policy
No. 28 (Autumn, 1977), pp. 22-51