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Author : Carmelo Mesa-Lago
Publisher : Coral Gables, Fla. : North-South Center, University of Miami
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cuba's Raft Exodus of 1994 written by Carmelo Mesa-Lago and published by Coral Gables, Fla. : North-South Center, University of Miami. This book was released on 1995 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carmelo Mesa-Lago
Publisher : Coral Gables, Fla. : North-South Center, University of Miami
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Cuba's Raft Exodus of 1994 written by Carmelo Mesa-Lago and published by Coral Gables, Fla. : North-South Center, University of Miami. This book was released on 1995 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Antonio Gordon
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781535480185
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Cuban Exodus Of 1994 written by Antonio Gordon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1994 Cuban boat crisis involved more than 50,000 Cubans who threw themselves into an uncertain future; refugees laid on rafts and improvised sea vessels in an attempt to escape from their homeland. One thought pressed their minds as they ventured away from the life they knew so well: that they could die trying to reach the United States. However, they courageously took the risk after deciding that they could no longer live in Castro's Cuba -- one burdened by discrimination, oppression, abuse, poverty, and subjection. The United States, in a gesture of humanity, rescued some 32,000 refugees from the Straits of Florida and the Caribbean Sea -- sadly, more than 15,000 may have died before being rescued. They were then sent to the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base where many endured more than a year of difficult physical and emotional conditions before their legal entry into the United States. During that year and a half, many improbable, noble, ugly, and unpredictable things happened in the refugee camps of the Cuban boat people. Dr. Antonio Gordon, a Cuban-American physician and researcher of Cuban health issues, has been able to captured the story of this crisis. He has traveled several times to Guantanamo Bay, voluntarily providing medical services to the rafters with the Miami Medical Team and collecting camp newspapers and personal accounts. In 2015, Dr. Gordon published the Spanish version of this volume; the work provides a unique version of this important time in our history, anchored by the rafter's testimonies and periodicals published in the refugee camps from Guantanamo and the Cayman Islands. Twenty years later, testimonies of thousands of Cuban rafters, American Armed Forces, and civilian personnel who came together in this crossroads of history are enraptured by this work. It is bound to touch the deepest fibers of all involved, Americans and Cubans alike, and will be a must for historians, students, and politicians interested in relations between Cuba and the United States."
Author : Alan Gratz
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545880874
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (458 download)
Download or read book Refugee written by Alan Gratz and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling novel from Alan Gratz tells the timely--and timeless--story of three different kids seeking refuge. A New York Times bestseller! JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world... ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America... MAHMOUD is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe... All three kids go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers -- from drownings to bombings to betrayals. But there is always the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, shocking connections will tie their stories together in the end. As powerful and poignant as it is action-packed and page-turning, this highly acclaimed novel has been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than four years and continues to change readers' lives with its meaningful takes on survival, courage, and the quest for home.
Author : Lars Schoultz
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807888605
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book That Infernal Little Cuban Republic written by Lars Schoultz and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lars Schoultz offers a comprehensive chronicle of U.S. policy toward the Cuban Revolution. Using a rich array of documents and firsthand interviews with U.S. and Cuban officials, he tells the story of the attempts and failures of ten U.S. administrations to end the Cuban Revolution. He concludes that despite the overwhelming advantage in size and power that the United States enjoys over its neighbor, the Cubans' historical insistence on their right to self-determination has been a constant thorn in the side of American administrations, influenced both U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy on a much larger stage, and resulted in a freeze in diplomatic relations of unprecedented longevity.
Author : Elizabeth Campisi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199394423
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Escape to Miami written by Elizabeth Campisi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba is well-known for its infamous prison camp, few people are aware of its prior use as an immigrant detention center for Haitian and Cuban refugees. Beginning in August 1994, the United States government declared that thousands of Cubans who had launched themselves into the Florida Straits on rickety rafts were "illegal refugees" and sent them to join over fifteen thousand Haitians already being held on Guantánamo after fleeing a violent coup in Haiti. Escape to Miami recounts the gripping stories of the rafters who were detained in Guantánamo during the 1994-1996 Cuban Rafter Crisis. After working in the camps for a year as an employee of the U.S. Justice Department, Elizabeth Campisi conducted life history interviews with twelve of the rafters, chronicling their departures from Cuba, their rafting trips, life on the base, and their initial experiences in Cuban Miami. Through these remarkable narratives, the book details the ways in which the rafters used creative expression, such as performance and artwork, to cope with the traumas they experienced in the camp. Campisi explores these coping mechanisms, showing that, when people work through individually-traumatic experiences as a group, the new meanings they create during that process can come together to change existing cultures or create new ones. Vivid and engaging, Escape to Miami gives voice to the untold stories of Guantánamo. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in policy, Latin American history, and human rights.
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Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817943530
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (435 download)
Download or read book A Strategic Flip-flop in the Caribbean: Lift the Embargo on Cub written by and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marc Frank
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813047846
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Cuban Revelations written by Marc Frank and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cuban Revelations, Marc Frank offers a first-hand account of daily life in Cuba at the turn of the twenty-first century, the start of a new and dramatic epoch for islanders and the Cuban diaspora. A U.S.-born journalist who has called Havana home for almost a quarter century, Frank observed in person the best days of the revolution, the fall of the Soviet Bloc, the great depression of the 1990s, the stepping aside of Fidel Castro, and the reforms now being devised by his brother. Examining the effects of U.S. policy toward Cuba, Frank analyzes why Cuba has entered an extraordinary, irreversible period of change and considers what the island's future holds. The enormous social engineering project taking place today under Raúl's leadership is fraught with many dangers, and Cuban Revelations follows the new leader's efforts to overcome bureaucratic resistance and the fears of a populace that stand in his way. In addition, Frank offers a colorful chronicle of his travels across the island's many and varied provinces, sharing candid interviews with people from all walks of life. He takes the reader outside the capital to reveal how ordinary Cubans live and what they are thinking and feeling as fifty-year-old social and economic taboos are broken. He shares his honest and unbiased observations on extraordinary positive developments in social matters, like healthcare and education, as well as on the inefficiencies in the Cuban economy.
Author : Rex A. Hudson
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780844410456
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Cuba written by Rex A. Hudson and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2002 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes and analyzes the economic, national security, political, and social systems and institutions of Cuba."--Amazon.com viewed Jan. 4, 2021.
Author : Jorge I. Dominguez
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822970446
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Cuban Studies 26 written by Jorge I. Dominguez and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1996-12-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field.
Author : Margarita Cervantes-Rodríguez
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 027105882X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book International Migration in Cuba written by Margarita Cervantes-Rodríguez and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the arrival of the Spanish conquerors at the beginning of the colonial period, Cuba has been hugely influenced by international migration. Between 1791 and 1810, for instance, many French people migrated to Cuba in the wake of the purchase of Louisiana by the United States and turmoil in Saint-Domingue. Between 1847 and 1874, Cuba was the main recipient of Chinese indentured laborers in Latin America. During the nineteenth century as a whole, more Spanish people migrated to Cuba than anywhere else in the Americas, and hundreds of thousands of slaves were taken to the island. The first decades of the twentieth century saw large numbers of immigrants and temporary workers from various societies arrive in Cuba. And since the revolution of 1959, a continuous outflow of Cubans toward many countries has taken place—with lasting consequences. In this book, the most comprehensive study of international migration in Cuba ever undertaken, Margarita Cervantes-Rodríguez aims to elucidate the forces that have shaped international migration and the involvement of the migrants in transnational social fields since the beginning of the colonial period. Drawing on Fernand Braudel’s concept of longue durée, transnational studies, perspectives on power, and other theoretical frameworks, the author places her analysis in a much wider historical and theoretical perspective than has previously been applied to the study of international migration in Cuba, making this a work of substantial interest to social scientists as well as historians.
Author : Jessica Gibbs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134073968
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book US Policy Towards Cuba written by Jessica Gibbs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive examination of US policy towards Cuba with a particular emphasis on the post-Cold War era. As well as providing a detailed account of US policy and actions towards Castro's regime, Jessica Gibbs also illustrates how this case study provides a revealing insight into wider debates about US foreign policy and international relations theory.
Author : Alejandro de Quesada
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780961421
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Bay of Pigs written by Alejandro de Quesada and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ALSO AVAILABLE TO BUY AS AN E-BOOK. The landings by the Cuban exile Assault Brigade 2506 at the Bay of Pigs on April 17, 1961 led to three days of savage but unequal combat. Before they even sailed for Cuba, a White House decision had condemned them to constant attacks by Castro's air force, which sank two of their ships loaded with vital supplies and equipment. Despite stubborn resistance to Castro's troops and tanks, and heroic sorties by Cuban and American B-26 pilots, the Brigade was strangled for lack of firepower and ammunition. Their story is illustrated with rare photos from Brigade veterans, and detailed color plates of the uniforms and insignia of both sides.
Author : Asa McKercher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793602786
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Entangled Terrains and Identities in Cuba written by Asa McKercher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entangled Terrains: Empire, Identity, and Memories of Guantánamo explores the challenges and conflicts of life in the transnational spaces between Cuba and the United States by examining the lived experiences of Alberto Jones, a first-generation black Cuban who worked at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay. Asa McKercher and Catherine Krull take readers on a journey through Jones’s life as he crossed the entangled political, racial, cultural, and economic boundaries, both in Cuba and living as a black Cuban in central Florida. McKercher and Krull argue that Jones’s story encapsulates the reality of recent Caribbean and Cuban experiences as they deconstruct the events of his life to reveal the broader cultural and social implications of identity, boundaries, and belonging throughout Caribbean and Cuban history.
Author : Mette Louise Berg
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857452460
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Diasporic Generations written by Mette Louise Berg and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpretations of the background to the Cuban diaspora – a political revolution and the subsequent radical transformation of the society and economy towards socialism – are politicised and highly contested. The Miami-based Cuban diaspora has had extraordinary success in putting its case high on the US political agenda and in capturing world media attention, but in the process the multiplicity of experiences within the diaspora has been overshadowed. This book gives voice to diasporic Cubans living in Spain, the former colonial ruler of Cuba. By focusing on their lived experiences of displacement, the book brings to light imaginative, narrative re-creations of the nation from afar. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, the book argues that the Cuban diaspora in Spain consists of three diasporic generations, generated through distinct migratory experiences. This constitutes an important step forward in understanding the dynamics of memory-making and social differentiation within diasporas, and in appreciating why people within the same diaspora engage in different modes of transnational practices and homeland relations.
Author : Lily Prellezo
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813037417
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Seagull One written by Lily Prellezo and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2010-09-26 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a time in Miami when it seemed impossible to go through a week without news coverage of the men, women and children escaping Cuba and being pulled off of makeshift rafts in the middle of the Florida Straits. One out of four did not survive the dangerous journey; the others barely hung on with little food and water. Most of the lucky ones were saved by a group of volunteers who called themselves Brothers to the Rescue (BTTR). Seagull One is the never-before-told story of the men and women representing nineteen nationalities who came together to fly in rickety Cessnas over the Florida Straits to search for rafters fleeing Communist Cuba. It is a fascinating account of how José Basulto, a Cuban exile and Bay of Pigs veteran, founded BTTR with the humanitarian mission of saving the lives of the desperate souls willing to brave the ocean in pursuit of freedom. The group’s tactics were sometimes controversial, including protests against both the Cuban and U.S. governments, yet the organization managed to save over 4,200 people they would seldom, if ever, meet. Seagull One also records the infiltration of two spies, one who was a double agent working for the FBI. Together these two volunteers collaborated with the Castro government in planning the shoot down over international waters of two unarmed Cessnas flying a humanitarian mission on February 24, 1996. The cold-blooded murder of four innocent men (three American citizens and one legal resident) led to significant changes in U.S.-Cuba relations. Over one hundred people were interviewed for Seagull One. Their stories come to life in this nonfiction narrative that reads like a novel.
Author : Francisco R. Wong-Diaz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Castro's Cuba written by Francisco R. Wong-Diaz and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
