Three Nights In Havana

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On January 26, 1976, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau embarked on his historic three-day visit to Havana, becoming the first leader of a NATO country to visit Cuba since the crippling 1960 American economic embargo. The shuttle used to be widely denounced, especially for its timing, as Castro had recently sent Cuban soldiers to fight a civil war in Angola. As the Americans watched warily, Trudeau, accompanied by his wife, Margaret, and baby Michel, used to be greeted in Havana by 250,000 cheering Cubans and a 30- foot poster of himself. “Long live Prime Minister Fidel Castro!” Trudeau would famously shout at the love-in. Margaret would declare Castro “the sexiest man alive.”

In this fascinating first-ever portrait of an bizarre relationship between two enigmatic world leaders, creator and historian Robert Wright brings to life three critical days when Canadian politics played on the international stage. Wright describes how, long before he used to be prime minister, Trudeau had attempted to canoe to Cuba, and how Castro visited Montreal as a young revolutionary, later welcoming FLQ terrorists to his tiny island. In a revealing look at their personalities and political ideologies, Wright shows how the two leaders, despite their official positions as allies of rival empires, had determinedly refused to exist merely as handmaidens to america. This fact, he asserts, is what brought them to power, and what drew them to one another.

Wright draws on extensive insight from political commentators and historians as many interviewees talk candidly for the first time. A book so that they can tap into our continuing fascination with Pierre Trudeau and our interest one day political course of Cuba, Three Nights in Havana is an intimate and insightful portrait of two controversial and ceaselessly misunderstood figures and their place in history.

Pierre Trudeau and Fidel Castro became friends despite their differences. They agreed to disagree; the same is true of Canada and Cuba. And it all started on a tiny coral key off Cuba’s southern shore in 1976, with the cheer heard round the world: “ Viva el primer ministro Fidel Castro!”—fromThree Nights in Havana

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