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Comandante is a political documentary film by American director Oliver Stone. In the film, Stone interviews Cuban leader Fidel Castro on a diverse range of topics. Stone and his film crew visited Castro in Cuba for three days in 2002, and the film was released in 2003, having its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival early that year. The film was partly produced by HBO and was planned for broadcast. Shortly before airtime, after Castro executed three hijackers of a ferry to the United States and imprisoned more than 70 political dissidents, HBO pulled the program.
Comandante is a book about Hugo Chávez by Irish journalist Rory Carroll first published in March 2013.
The book was published on 7 March 2013 — two days after the announcement of Chávez's death—by Penguin Press in the US and by Canongate in the UK. Translations are underway for editions in Brazil, China, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Estonia and Poland. It was named by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the 25 books to read in 2013.
John Sweeney in The Literary Review called the book "a well-considered and painfully fair epitaph" but said it was encumbered with respect for chavistas' aspirations. Oliver Balch in The Independent, considered that it "excels in showing what happens when a self-believing ideologue grasps the reins of government and determines not to let go."
The book was featured as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week during March 2013.
Usage examples of "comandante".
We are yours--we will die for you, no matter what Don Ramon, or the Comandante, or the Ayuntamiento, shall decide.
Comandante Commissar-Designate Sacco Vanzetti Rojo wore a Graustarkian uniform, quite patched but encrusted with medals, tarnished gold braid, sashes, epaulets and a Cossack sword.
But it would be infinitely easier to check with every one of them than to have to bed that criadero de sapos of a comandante.
At one point the Comandante himself stopped all conversation to ask, through his interpreter, why I was not eating.
He told us unsmilingly he was not sure El Comandante would agree to the proposal.
Except for a few opening pleasantries with the President, El Comandante spent most of the lunch talking with her.
El Comandante, whose protracted expatiations inflicted incalculable damage on the administration.
Spain for a wife, immediately this assignment of mine be ended and another comandante be sent to take my place here.
Don Miguel Briones, Comandante of the Presidio of Todos Santos, at present hidden in the fog, and the very reverend and pious Padre Esteban, of the Mission of Todos Santos, likewise invisible.
He waved his hand towards the Comandante, who, stepping forward, swept the deck with his plumed hat before each of the ladies in solemn succession.
Senor Comandante says you are free, Senoras, and begs you will only decide whether you will remain his guests or the guests of the Alcalde.
Senor Comandante believes you, Dona Leonora: the Senor Hurlstone is innocent of the piracy.
I will betake me to the Comandante and the Alcalde, to learn the dispositions of your party, when the ship will sail, and if your absence is suspected.
Thank you for the assurance all the same, and in return I promise you I will use my best endeavors with the Comandante for your friend the Captain Bunker.
The Comandante lifted his hand gravely with a gesture of silence, and then slowly removed his plumed hat.