Carlos Alberto Montaner, a Cuban-born writer and columnist who was jailed as a teenager after Fidel Castro took power in 1959 and managed an escape, becoming a fierce opponent of the island’s communist ruler, died June 29 at his home in Madrid. He was 80.
Mr. Montaner said the book was intended as shock therapy against the so-called “dependency theory,” which asserts that Latin American economies were built as puppets of the North.
This was part of Castro’s mystique, Mr. Montaner conceded. “I think Fidel Castro awakens a deep anthropological curiosity,” Mr. Montaner once said in a rare comment on Castro’s appeal. “He’s the bearded man dressed in military costume with a heroic history, and he militarily defeated a dictatorship.”Carlos Alberto Montaner Suris was born April 3, 1943, in Havana. His father was a journalist for Bohemia magazine and was an early supporter of Castro. His mother was a teacher.
Mr. Montaner moved to Madrid in 1970 and founded a publishing house, Editorial Playor, in 1972. In the 1980s, he began writing for U.S. newspapers, including the Miami Herald. He was editor of El Nuevo Herald’s opinion page between 1987 and 1989. In 2013, he joined the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies as a senior research associate.In 2014, an interviewer in Cuba“Yes, I would,” he said. “I am nothing other than Cuban.”“No,” he said. “I think I will die without returning to Cuba.”
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