Did Fidel Castro speak English?

Factual Questions
1

If so, how fluently? Heavy accent or slight? Where did he learn his English, if at all, and how long did he study it?

2

Here he is speaking English: Fidel Castro speaks English after visit to United Nations in the US

3

Thank you. I didn’t think to look on Youtube. Here is another clip, from 1959, in which his English seems much more halting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUeR4c4-6QE

4

I just watched a few seconds of a random time. He sounded like José Jimenez. :stuck_out_tongue:

5

Seeing as the OP’s question has been definitively answered, I’ll throw in a trivia note. Benito Mussolini spoke at least four languages; Italian, English, French, and German. He was good enough that he got a job as a language teacher early in his life. This worked as an advantage to Mussolini at the Munich conference in 1938 because he was the only national leader there who could speak to all of his peers directly.

6

Here is an English letter he sent FDR.

See it here.