My Associate Fidel Castro

<p class=ql-align-justify><em>Fidel turns to me again:</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em>-Why did you come to Cuba?</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em>-To make money! </em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em>I answer in a matter-of-fact tone almost smiling and Fidel does the same:</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em>-I'm glad you're coming to earn money so I can earn more than you! </em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em>This reflection also reveals to me the prevailing state of mind in Cuba.</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>History business power love politics revolution... these are just some of the ingredients of this Cuban adventure a real tour de force by a French entrepreneur in Havana. It's the unique journey of a pioneer who in order to create a chain of French bakeries in Cuba is forced to make Fidel Castro his partner. It's a plunge into the paradoxical daily life of the Cuban people who sway between laughter and despair between passion and nonchalance.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>We meet François Mitterrand Lionel Jospin Dominique Strauss-Kahn singer Mireille Mathieu Olympic boxing champion Félix Savon Gérard Bourgoin the Castro brothers and many other heroes of a revolution that never stops dying.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>It also breathes the air of Havana saturated with humid heat and sensuality. It's a true economic-political thriller. And the most astonishing thing of all is that everything it tells is real!</p>