‘The Boys from Dolores’: Fidel Castro’s classmates

By M&C News Dec 9, 2007, 10:51 GMT

A new book called The Boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro's Classmates from Revolution to Exile, by Patrick Symmes is what the NYT describes as, “It is a rich, personal, meticulous, deeply layered work of narrative journalism built around the story of a group of Cuban cadets in an elite military prep school run by the Jesuits, the Colegio de Dolores.”

Not only that, but the author strived to understand “the cultural and political role of the school whose story he tells,” the NYT article also stated.

Castro was definitely a handsome boy, for all one need do is click on the NYT article to view a photo of him sucking on a lollipop.

Publishers Weekly had positive things to say, “To the Dolores alumni the Holy Grail is a Cuba without Castro, but Symmes, whose picture of Castro is unsympathetic in the extreme, nonetheless worries that a Castro-less Cuba will, without remorse, leave its poor bereft and evolve into a society that is more free but less just. Symmes's writing is lyrical and evocative; his powerful and complex picture of Cuba and the exile community is well worth reading.”

Pantheon is the publisher, and this book is recommended for anyone who wants to know more about Castro through those who knew him early on.

Click here to read the NYT article.