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Only a Few Blocks to Cuba

Author : Mauricio Fernando Castro
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512825735
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Only a Few Blocks to Cuba written by Mauricio Fernando Castro and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Only a Few Blocks to Cuba, Mauricio Castro shows how the U.S. government came to view Cuban migration to Miami as a strategic asset during the Cold War, in the process investing heavily in the city’s development and shaping its future as a global metropolis. When Cuban refugees fleeing Communist revolution began to arrive in Miami in 1959, the city was faced with a humanitarian crisis it was ill-equipped to handle and sought to have the federal government solve what local politicians clearly viewed as a Cold War geopolitical problem. In response, the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, and their successors, provided an unprecedented level of federal largesse and freedom of transit to these refugees. The changes to the city this investment wrought were as impactful and permanent as they were unintended. What was meant to be a short-term geopolitical stratagem instead became a new reality in South Florida. A growing and increasingly powerful Cuban community contested their place in Miami and navigated challenges like bilingualism, internal political disputes, socioeconomic polarization, and ongoing struggles and negotiations with Washington and Havana in the decades that followed. This contested process, argues Mauricio Castro, not only transformed South Florida, but American foreign policy and the calculus of national politics. Castro uses extensive archival research in local and national sources to demonstrate that the Cuban diaspora and Cold War refugee policy made South Florida a key space to understanding the shifting landscape of the late twentieth century. In this way, Miami serves as an example of both the lived effects of defense spending in urban spaces and of how local communities can shape national politics and international relations. American politics, foreign relations, immigration policy, and urban development all intersected on the streets of Miami.

Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away

Author : David Powell
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 168340341X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away written by David Powell and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida Historical Society Samuel Proctor Award Rare accounts of Cuban migration in the words of the exiles themselves Bringing together an unprecedented number of extensive personal stories, this book shares the triumphs and heartbreaking moments experienced by some of the first Cubans to come to the United States after Fidel Castro took power in 1959. Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away is a moving look inside fifteen years of migration that changed the two countries and transformed the lives of the people who found themselves separated from their homeland. David Powell presents interviews with refugees who left Cuba between 1959 and the 1962 Missile Crisis, as well as those who embarked on the Freedom Flights of the late 1960s and early 1970s. During these years more than 600,000 Cubans migrated to the US, some by way of other countries and many arriving in Miami with only a few clothes and pocket money. In their own words, exiles describe why they left the island, how they prepared for departure, what situations they faced when they arrived in the US, and how they integrated into American life. Offering historical background that illuminates this pivotal period in the context of the Cold War, Powell shows how the US government’s Cuban refugee assistance program had far-reaching effects on refugee policy, bilingual education, and child welfare programs. The testimonies in this book include new information about low-cost “Cuban Loans” that enabled young exiles to attend US colleges, preparing many to be builders and leaders in their adopted country today. A powerful portrayal of the initial effects of a revolution that began a new era in Cuba’s relationship with the world, this book preserves rare accounts of the motivations and struggles of early Cuban exiles in the words of the emigres themselves, adding gripping detail to the history of the modern Cuban diaspora. Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This Is Cuba

Author : David Ariosto
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250176980
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book This Is Cuba written by David Ariosto and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today "New and Noteworthy" • One of The Washington Post's "10 Books to Read—and Gift—in December" "Fascinating." —Forbes Fidel Castro is dead. Donald Trump was elected president. And to most outsiders, the fate of Cuba has never seemed more uncertain. Yet those who look close enough may recognize that signs of the next revolution are etched in plain view. This is Cuba is a true story that begins in the summer of 2009 when a young American photo-journalist is offered the chance of a lifetime—a two-year assignment in Havana. For David Ariosto, the island is an intriguing new world, unmoored from the one he left behind. From neighboring military coups, suspected honey traps, salty spooks, and desperate migrants to dissidents, doctors, and Havana’s empty shelves, Ariosto uncovers the island’s subtle absurdities, its Cold War mystique, and the hopes of a people in the throes of transition. Beyond the classic cars, salsa, and cigars lies a country in which black markets are ubiquitous, free speech is restricted, privacy is curtailed, sanctions wreak havoc, and an almost Kafka-esque goo of Soviet-style bureaucracy still slows the gears of an economy desperate to move forward. But life in Cuba is indeed changing, as satellite dishes and internet hotspots dot the landscape and more Americans want in. Still, it’s not so simple. The old sentries on both sides of the Florida Straits remain at their posts, fists clenched and guarding against the specter of a Cold War that never quite ended, despite the death of Fidel and the hand-over of the presidency to a man whose last name isn’t Castro. And now, a crisis is brewing. In This Is Cuba, Ariosto looks at Cuba from the inside-out over the course of nine years, endeavoring to expose clues for what’s in store for the island as it undergoes its biggest change in more than half a century.

Waiting For Snow In Havana

Author : Carlos Eire
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147110835X
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Waiting For Snow In Havana written by Carlos Eire and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across the breakwater. Lizards and firecrackers made frequent contact. Carlos Eire's childhood was a little different from most. His father was convinced he had been Louis XVI in a past life. At school, classmates with fathers in the Batista government were attended by chauffeurs and bodyguards. At a home crammed with artifacts and paintings, portraits of Jesus spoke to him in dreams and nightmares. Then, in January 1959, the world changes: Batista is suddenly gone, a cigar-smoking guerrilla has taken his place, and Christmas is cancelled. The echo of firing squads is everywhere. And, one by one, the author's schoolmates begin to disappear-spirited away to the United States. Carlos will end up there himself, without his parents, never to see his father again. Narrated with the urgency of a confession, WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA is both an ode to a paradise lost and an exorcism. More than that, it captures the terrible beauty of those times in our lives when we are certain we have died-and then are somehow, miraculously, reborn.

Visions of Power in Cuba

Author : Lillian Guerra
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807837369
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Visions of Power in Cuba written by Lillian Guerra and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts of Cuba's six million citizens. In Visions of Power in Cuba, Lillian Guerra argues that these visual representations explained rapidly occurring events and encouraged radical change and mutual self-sacrifice. Mass rallies and labor mobilizations of unprecedented scale produced tangible evidence of what Fidel Castro called "unanimous support" for a revolution whose "moral power" defied U.S. control. Yet participation in state-orchestrated spectacles quickly became a requirement for political inclusion in a new Cuba that policed most forms of dissent. Devoted revolutionaries who resisted disastrous economic policies, exposed post-1959 racism, and challenged gender norms set by Cuba's one-party state increasingly found themselves marginalized, silenced, or jailed. Using previously unexplored sources, Guerra focuses on the lived experiences of citizens, including peasants, intellectuals, former prostitutes, black activists, and filmmakers, as they struggled to author their own scripts of revolution by resisting repression, defying state-imposed boundaries, and working for anti-imperial redemption in a truly free Cuba.

Murder, Inc.

Author : James H. Johnston
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640122168
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Murder, Inc. written by James H. Johnston and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late in his life, former president Lyndon B. Johnson told a reporter that he didn’t believe the Warren Commission’s finding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing President John F. Kennedy. Johnson thought Cuban president Fidel Castro was behind it. After all, Johnson said, Kennedy was running “a damned Murder, Inc., in the Caribbean,” giving Castro reason to retaliate. Murder, Inc., tells the story of the CIA’s assassination operations under Kennedy up to his own assassination and beyond. James H. Johnston was a lawyer for the Senate Intelligence Committee in 1975, which investigated and first reported on the Castro assassination plots and their relation to Kennedy’s murder. Johnston examines how the CIA steered the Warren Commission and later investigations away from connecting its own assassination operations to Kennedy’s murder. He also looks at the effect this strategy had on the Warren Commission’s conclusions that assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and that there was no foreign conspiracy. Sourced from in-depth research into the “secret files” declassified by the JFK Records Act and now stored in the National Archives and Records Administration, Murder, Inc. is the first book to narrate in detail the CIA’s plots against Castro and to delve into the question of why retaliation by Castro against Kennedy was not investigated.

On the Move

Author : Alejandra Bronfman
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848137451
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book On the Move written by Alejandra Bronfman and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caribbean stands out in the popular imagination as a 'place without history', a place which has somehow eluded modernity. Haiti is envisioned as being trapped in an endless cycle of violence and instability, Cuba as a 1950s time warp, Jamaicans as ganja-smoking Rastafarians, while numerous pristine, anonymous islands are simply peaceful idylls. The notion of 'getting away from it all' lures countless visitors, offering the possibility of total disconnect for the world-weary. In On the Move Alejandra Bronfman argues that in fact the opposite is true; the Caribbean is, and has always been, deeply engaged with the wider world. From drugs and tourism to international political struggles, these islands form an integral part of world history and of the present, and are themselves in a constant state of economic and social flux in the face of global transformations.

The Cuba Wars

Author : Daniel P. Erikson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608192415
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Cuba Wars written by Daniel P. Erikson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are few international relationships as intimate, as passionate-and as dysfunctional-as that of the United States and Cuba. In The Cuba Wars, Cuba expert Daniel Erikson draws on extensive visits and conversations with both Cuban government officials and opposition leaders-plus key players in Washington and Florida-to offer an unmatched portrait of a small country with outsized importance to Americans and American policy.

The Rough Guide to Cuba

Author : Fiona McAuslan
Publisher : Rough Guides UK
ISBN 13 : 1848367953
Total Pages : 1171 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book The Rough Guide to Cuba written by Fiona McAuslan and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 1171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Cuba is the ultimate guide to the home of sun, salsa and rum From down town Trinidad to small-town street parties, the section introduces the best Cuba has to offer. This revised 6th edition contains ... The guide is full of informed descriptions and accurate listings of the best bars, restaurants and music venues to be seen at, from the lively city of Havana to the seaside resorts of Cayo Coco and Guardalavaca. This guide also takes a detailed look at the country's turbulent history,sport, music and wildlife, and comes complete with new maps and plans for every area. The Rough Guide to Cuba's is like having a local friend plan your trip!

Next Year in Cuba: A Cubano's Coming of Age

Author : Gustavo P?rez Firmat
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 9781611922349
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Next Year in Cuba: A Cubano's Coming of Age written by Gustavo P?rez Firmat and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gustavo P?rez Firmat arrived in America with his family at the age of eleven. Victims of CastroÍs revolution, the P?rez family put their life on hold, waiting for CastroÍs fall. Each Christmas, along with other Cuban families in the neighborhood, they celebrated with the cry, ñNext year in Cuba.î Growing up in the Dade County school system, and graduating from college in Florida, P?rez Firmat was insulated from America by the nurturing sights and sounds of Little Havana. It wasnÍt until he left home to attend graduate school at the University of Michigan that he realized, as the Cuba of his birth receded farther into the past, he had become no longer wholly Cubano, but increasingly a man of two heritages and two countries. In a searing memoir of a family torn apart by exile, P?rez Firmat chronicles the painful search for roots that has come to dominate his adult life. With one brother beset by personal problems and another embracing the very revolution that drove their family out of Cuba, Gustavo realized that the words ñNext Year in Cuba,î had, for him, taken on a hollow ring. Now, married to an American woman, and father to two children who are Cuban in name only, P?rez Firmat has finally come to acknowledge his need to celebrate his love of Cuba, while embracing the America he has come to love.

The Rough Guide to Cuba

Author : Matthew Norman
Publisher : Rough Guides UK
ISBN 13 : 1409348989
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Rough Guide to Cuba written by Matthew Norman and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Cuba is the perfect guide for all your travels across the dazzling country of Cuba. Its maps and tips will lead you to the best hotels, bars, clubs, shops and restaurants in the country. Discover all of Cuba's highlights with insider information ranging from Cuba's diverse music, scuba diving and colonial architecture to its world-class ballet and baseball, political history and captivating capital city, Havana. Clear maps will make your travels around this spectacular country easy and unforgettable. You will never miss a sight with the stunning photos included and detailed coverage of Cuba's vibrant cities, glittering beaches, lush countryside and addictive mixture of the Latin American and Caribbean cultures. The Rough Guide to Cuba will take your travels to new heights, ensuring that you don't miss the unmissable while you're there. Now available in ePub format.

Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba

Author : Tom Gjelten
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440629986
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba written by Tom Gjelten and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this widely hailed book, NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten fuses the story of the Bacardi family and their famous rum business with Cuba's tumultuous experience over the last 150 years to produce a deeply entertaining historical narrative. The company Facundo Bacardi launched in Cuba in 1862 brought worldwide fame to the island, and in the decades that followed his Bacardi descendants participated in every aspect of Cuban life. With his intimate account of their struggles and adventures across five generations, Gjelten brings to life the larger story of Cuba's fight for freedom, its tortured relationship with America, the rise of Fidel Castro, and the violent division of the Cuban nation.

An Island Called Home

Author : Ruth Behar
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813541891
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book An Island Called Home written by Ruth Behar and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the author's return to learn about and meet the people who are keeping Judaism alive in Cuba today.

Havana USA

Author : Maria Cristina Garcia
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520919990
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Havana USA written by Maria Cristina Garcia and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-02-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years since Fidel Castro came to power, the migration of close to one million Cubans to the United States continues to remain one of the most fascinating, unusual, and controversial movements in American history. María Cristina García—a Cuban refugee raised in Miami—has experienced firsthand many of the developments she describes, and has written the most comprehensive and revealing account of the postrevolutionary Cuban migration to date. García deftly navigates the dichotomies and similarities between cultures and among generations. Her exploration of the complicated realm of Cuban American identity sets a new standard in social and cultural history.

Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

Author : Vincent Bugliosi
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393072126
Total Pages : 1696 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy written by Vincent Bugliosi and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007-05-17 with total page 1696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fifty years the truth about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been obscured. This book releases us from a crippling distortion of American history. At 1:00 p.m. on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was pronounced dead, the victim of a sniper attack during his motorcade through Dallas. That may be the only fact generally agreed upon in the vast literature spawned by the assassination. National polls reveal that an overwhelming majority of Americans (75%) believe that there was a high-level conspiracy behind Lee Harvey Oswald. Many even believe that Oswald was entirely innocent. In this continuously absorbing, powerful, ground-breaking book, Vincent Bugliosi shows how we have come to believe such lies about an event that changed the course of history. The brilliant prosecutor of Charles Manson and the man who forged an iron-clad case of circumstantial guilt around O. J. Simpson in his best-selling Outrage Bugliosi is perhaps the only man in America capable of writing the definitive book on the Kennedy assassination. This is an achievement that has for years seemed beyond reach. No one imagined that such a book would ever be written: a single volume that once and for all resolves, beyond any reasonable doubt, every lingering question as to what happened in Dallas and who was responsible. There have been hundreds of books about the assassination, but there has never been a book that covers the entire case, including addressing every piece of evidence and each and every conspiracy theory, and the facts, or alleged facts, on which they are based. In this monumental work, the author has raised scholarship on the assassination to a new and final level, one that far surpasses all other books on the subject. It adds resonance, depth, and closure to the admirable work of the Warren Commission. Reclaiming History is a narrative compendium of fact, forensic evidence, reexamination of key witnesses, and common sense. Every detail and nuance is accounted for, every conspiracy theory revealed as a fraud on the American public. Bugliosi's irresistible logic, command of the evidence, and ability to draw startling inferences shed fresh light on this American nightmare. At last it all makes sense. Some images in this ebook are not displayed due to permissions issues.

Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba

Author : Ruth Behar
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472036637
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba written by Ruth Behar and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology by Cuban and Cuban-American writers, artists, and scholars celebrating a new era of restored relations between Cuba and the U.S.

Havana-Merida-Chicago (A Journey to Freedom)

Author : Antonio Evaristo Morales-Pita, PhD
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1685629725
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book Havana-Merida-Chicago (A Journey to Freedom) written by Antonio Evaristo Morales-Pita, PhD and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Havana-Merida-Chicago is an autobiography which narrates - from human, psychological, sociological, and religious standpoints – how a Cuban scientist was raised in a communist environment, believed in it, was deceived by its dictatorial procedures, and escaped from it. The manuscript is also grounded on economic and political bases. It is an inspiring story of perseverance to succeed in life. “The book is more than just a personal story: It is a metaphor for the power of freedom and the human spirit that eventually brings demise to repressive rule” Stanley L. Brue, egregious economist co-author of the book Macroeconomics, widely used as a textbook in business departments of American universities.