Citizen Cane picks up his camera

I captured this informal shot of Fidel Castro, then El Presidente, between meetings at the conference centre in Harare, Zimbabwe in August 1986 where 90 odd heads of state from the Non-Aligned Movement gathered to discuss important matters, like how to deal with apartheid South Africa. He subsequently launched into a two hour speech in Spanish, the gist of which I’m sure had an anti capitalist theme running through it. We didn’t have much of a conversation, my Spanish was quite limited at the time, but he did agree to let me take the picture and several others.