20/20 Fidel Castro interview - Barbara Walters [2of6]

US Cuba Relations

Barbara Walters interviews Fidel Castro from Havana, Cuba -- 25 years after her first interview with the Cuban leader. Her original interview made a little history because people got their first real look at the man. Although Castro is known for very long speeches, he rarely does interviews.

Fidel Castro, 76 at the time of this interview, has outlasted nine US presidents. He's on his tenth. His rule continues to inspire both fear and devotion. He tells Barbara Walters that Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev lied to both President John F. Kennedy and Cuba, heightening the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Anchor: Barbara Walters and John Miller Airdate: October 11, 2002

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• fidel
• castro
• cuba
• communism
• socialism
• barbara
• walters
• 20/20

[kimbuo]

the last truly charismatic leader in the world

[juanlmesl]

VIVA CASTRO!!!!

[ChronoTriggerMusic]

Is it just me or is there unresolved sexual tension between these two?

[STATiSofVITALETHICS]

i thought he speaks english

[mehmetursan]

coolest guy alive

[crismartinezHR]

It's amazing how we in America want every country in the world to live like we do, as if other people in other countries don't have ideas or for that matter intelligence.

[Bambinoxx12]

VIVA CUBA POR SIEMPRE FIDEL !!!!!!

[Seedofwinter]

It wasn't just Castro that was worried about the United States and it's cowboy actions, it was Iran, it was Libya, it was EVERYONE. Bush didn't think rationally, and behaved like a cowboy. He completely wrecked our Country and left us submerged in red ink. There has never been an idiot of his level in the White house at any time in our History.

Manufacturing lies on other Countries as an excuse to invade them, this guy should be in jail for the way he conducted, and the lies he propagated

[DestinysNinja]

Could someone please link me to part 1/6? I can't seem to find it.

Great footage, thank you.

[kimbuo]

@egogo816 I would say just that for what I know, Fidel Castro lead the revolution, not to gain power for himself, but to free his country from what he believed were an opressive state and foreign influences and make a better way of life for his people. I mean, I don´t think he used empty rethoric, he really wanted the best for his country. You can´t say that for sure of almost no other leader or president in these times.

[egogo816]

@kimbuo Okay I can take that, but he sounds like every other dictator in this world....going around making fun of the world by creating circuitious or rhetorical answers therefore telling everyone to mind their damn business and let us commit our atrocities against its own people...Cuba is a much better country than it was many decades ago...But i think a lot of people would want to know what it is like to have a different leader otehr than Fidel, Raul, or one party system

[Nekronaut321]

the US talks about freedom of speech. isnt freedom to live more important?