Cuba Librés with Wilfred Burchett in Cuba cha cha cha.
Wednesday, August 22, 1979: On assignment with Four Corners, ABC documentary unit with David Brill and Ian Macintosh. It’s the Sixth Summit of Non-Aligned Nations , a politically charged affair in Cuba. A hundred nations opposed to America are gathering ninety miles off Key West, Florida. The summit represents nearly two-thirds of United Nations' members and comprises fifty-five percent of the world’s population but it’s hardly known in the West. After the Bay of Pigs fiasco in the early sixties Fidel Castro is still alive and we’re hoping for an interview. U.S. aircraft were not welcome nor allowed in Cuba so we flew via Kingston, Jamaica to Havana on Aeroflot. The Berlin Wall had not yet fallen and the Soviet Union still stood tall beside Fidel twenty years after the Cuban Revolution. It’s a little over an hour’s flight, and I’m watching the white furrows of trading vessels steaming in the blue-green Caribbean Sea. And soon we descend and take a taxi to the Hotel N...
