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La Breve Historia de Fidel Castro es un repaso histÃ3rico de la vida del lÃ-der cubano desde la perspectiva de un periodista tambiÃ(c)n cubano que participÃ3 activamente en la RevoluciÃ3n y que ha sido testigo directo de muchos de los hechos que cuenta.En este libro se detallan algunos aspectos oscuros de su vida. Por ejemplo, la implicaciÃ3n de Fidel en la muerte del Che y en la oportuna desapariciÃ3n de Camilo Cienfuegos. TambiÃ(c)n se describen algunos casos de corrupciÃ3n del rÃ(c)gimen, como, por ejemplo, el episodio referido al tràfico ilÃ-cito de drogas que se coordinaba desde las oficinas centrales del Ministerio del Interior.Juan Carlos Rivera Quintana narra el desarrollo improvisado y pragmàtico del proyecto polÃ-tico de Fidel Castro, su repercusiÃ3n mundial y las consecuencias internas para el pueblo cubano. Esta obra no deja de lado ningðn hecho importante de la vida de Fidel Castro: el asalto al Cuartel Moncada, el viaje en el Granma y el desembarco en Sierra Maestra, el ascenso al poder, la invasiÃ3n de BahÃ-a de Cochinos y la victoria de Playa GirÃ3n, la crisis de los misiles, la participaciÃ3n en la Guerra de Angola, la visita del Papa, la enfermedad de Fidel y la cesiÃ3n del poder a su hermano Raðl.

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Juan Carlos Rivera Quintana (Cuba, 1960) is a writer, journalist, and university professor. He received his degree in arts and sciences from the University of Havana in 1978 and five years later he earned another degree in journalism. Later on he earned his masters in planification and management of communication processes from the National University of la Plata in Argentina.As a journalist he has covered the visits to Cuba of various foreign heads of state, including those of Mikhail Gorbachev, Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, Daniel Ortega and Felipe Gonzalez. In 1996 he received the FÃ(c)lix Elmuza Medal awarded by the Association of Cuban Journalists for his distinguished professional career. He has also been the recipient of other professional honors in recognition of his coverage of international conflicts and wars. In 2006 he was awarded the Second Latin American Health Journalism Award by OMS-OPS and the New Journalism Foundation, which is run by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Cartagena, Colombia. As a writer, he has seen several of his books published, including the recent A Brief History of Charlemagne: The Sacred Roman-Germanic Empire (Nowtilus).

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