Fidel Castro says U.S. reporter misinterpreted him
By Summer Harlow
Former Cuban president Fidel Castro is claiming U.S. journalist Jeffrey Goldberg misinterpreted his words, according to Xinhua, the official state Chinese English-language news agency.
Goldberg, who writes for The Atlantic magazine, was the first U.S. reporter to interview Castro since the Communist leader became ill at the end of July 2006.
Castro was quoted by the reporter as saying, the "Cuban model doesn't even work for us any more." Now, however, Castro is saying that he wasn't referring to Cuba's economic model, and that what he really meant was that the capitalist system was not working, AFP reported.
In fact, Castro said he was "amused" at how his remark was interpreted when he meant "exactly the opposite" of what Goldberg reported, according to Bloomberg.
https://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/fidel-castro-says-us-reporter-misinterpreted-him
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I was misinterpreted on Cuban model not working, says Castro
HAVANA, Sept 11, (AFP) -Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro has insisted he was misinterpreted by a US reporter who quoted him as saying that the Cuban economic model “doesn't even work for us any more.”Castro, who left the presidency in 2006, recently gave a rare three-day interview with a reporter from The Atlantic magazine and a Cuba expert from the US Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
According to The Atlantic, which published its account on Wednesday, the 84-year-old Cuban revolutionary icon joked about the state of the Cuban economy. Castro said Friday he made the statement “without anger or worry. Now I'm amused to see how (the Atlantic reporter) interpreted it literally” in consultation with a CFR expert.
In this picture released by Cuban website www.cubadebate.cu, former Cuban President Fidel Castro attends the presentation of his new book “La Contraofensiva Estrategica” (The Strategic Counter offensive) at Havana's University on September 10. AFP
My answer, Castro said, “meant exactly the opposite” of what the reporter wrote, Castro said, speaking at an event presenting the second volume of his autobiography.
Castro said he was clear about Goldberg's intention when he asked if the Cuban model was still worth exporting: “It's obvious that implicit in the question was the theory that Cuba was exporting the revolution.”In Washington, CFR expert Julia Sweig, who was present at the interview, told AFP on Friday that she had a different take on Castro's quote.
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“My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system no longer works neither for the United States or the rest of the world; it leads to one crisis after another, ever worsening, global in scope... and inescapable.”
http://www.sundaytimes.lk/100912/International/int_04.html
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Fidel Castro says his comment on Cuban model was misunderstood
From Shasta Darlington, CNN
September 10, 2010 9:02 p.m. EDT
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On Friday, Castro said he was correctly quoted, but that, "in reality, my answer meant exactly the opposite of what both American journalists interpreted regarding the Cuban model."
"My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system no longer works for the United States or the world," he said. "How could such a system work for a socialist country like Cuba?" Castro called Goldberg "a great journalist."
"He does not invent phrases, he transfers them and interprets them," he said. "I await with interest his extensive article."
He told an audience that included some of his former soldiers who were there to mark the publication of his 608-page autobiography that the capitalist system "leads from crisis to crisis, each one more serious."
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/09/10/cuba.castro.communism/
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