I have real fears for Cuba based on the South American experience. Where you have had such a stern regime, as Fidel's [Castro], there is no culture of politics.
John GimletteThe noise that we can expect in the future will only increase and we'll be wishing for rural Portugal or something like that.
John GimletteI have dipped into Ian McEwan and so on. I tend not to stick with one writer. But I dip in here and there.
John GimletteParaguayans have no Italian blood and are half Guarani [Indian] blood. And the Chileans call themselves "the English of South America," which actually couldn't be further from the truth.
John Gimlette