Loris Zanatta | Fidel Castro: the last Catholic king

Like the Catholic kings, he fuses politics and religion, coming up with a ‘political’ religion. He does not create a political community but a community of faith, inclusive towards the faithful, ruthless with heretics. And his enemies are the same as in Catholic Spain: Protestant civilisation and the Enlightenment, now renamed ‘capitalism’ and ‘liberalism’.

Loris Zanatta teaches History and Institutions of Latin America at the University of Bologna. He is a columnist for the Buenos Aires newspapers «La Nación» and «Clarín» and a member of the Academy of the History of the Argentine Republic. He has numerous historical publications to his credit, including: Eva Perón. Una biografia politica, Rubbettino (2009); Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, Laterza (2010); Il populismo, Carocci (2013); La Nazione cattolica. Chiesa e dittatura nell’Argentina di Bergoglio, Laterza (2014, also published in Argentina); Fidel Castro. L’ultimo «re cattolico», Salerno (2019) and Il populismo gesuita. Perón, Fidel, Bergoglio, Laterza (2020).

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