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From the author of Chasing Che, the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political and social history. The Boys from Dolores illuminates the elite island society from which Fidel Castro and his brother Raul emerged.The Colegio de Dolores was a Jesuit boarding school in Santiago, Cuba's rich and ancient second city, where Fidel and Raul were educated in the 1930s and '40s. Patrick Symmes begins his story here, tracking down dozens of Fidel's schoolmates glimpsed in a single period photograph. And it is through their stories--their time at the Colegio; the catastrophic effects of the revolution on their lives; their fates since--that Symmes opens a door onto a Cuba, and a time in Castro's life, that have been deliberately obscured from us. Here too is the elusive Raul Castro, a cipher destined to rule Cuba in Fidel's place.We see Castro in his formative youth, an adolescent ruling the classrooms of the Colegio and running in the streets of Santiago. Symmes traces the years in which the revolution was conceived, won, and lost, describing the changes it wrought in Santiago and in the lives of Fidel's own classmates: we follow them through the maelstrom of the 1960s

Author

Patrick Symmes, Patrick Symmes

Publisher

Constable and Robinson Ltd

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781845290009

Subjects

History, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24