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Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"In The Cuba Wars, Daniel Erikson draws on extensive visits to Cuba and conversations with Cubans from across the political spectrum - plus the key players in Washington and Florida - to offer the most vivid and up-to-date portrait of a small country with very large importance to America."--BOOK JACKET
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Publisher
Distributed by Ingram Publisher Services
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Covering popular culture, the economy, and Cuban politics, veteran reporter Reese Erlich combines original photography with on-the-ground reporting from Havana and Miami. He explores Cuba's strained history with the US, the power of the Cuba Lobby and offers a fresh look at the island nation nearly 50 years after their historic Revolution to create a tableau that is at once moving and informative.--from publisher description.
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Series
Publisher
Ocean Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
Español
Description
Fabian Escalante is a former head of Cuban counterintelligence and a respected and much-sought-after authority by US researchers on CIA activities. Following the Watergate scandal and the 1975 US Senate commission, which revealed an extensive program of CIA plots against foreign leaders, the US government established a congressional committee to re-examine the Kennedy assassination. As there was growing speculation about the role of anti-Castro exiles...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of Cuba's Cold War mindset and a people in the throes of transition, with tales of run-ins with spies, secret backrooms, and empty grocery shelves. Fidel Castro is dead. Donald Trump is in the White House. And to most outsiders, the fate of Cuba has never been more uncertain. But those who look close enough realize the blueprints for the island's next revolution may be etched in plain view. This is Cuba begins in the summer of 2009...
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Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
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Description
In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued—through the tenure of ten American presidents and the fifty-year rule of Fidel Castro. His death in 2016, and the retirement of his brother and successor Raúl Castro in 2021, have spurred questions about the country’s future. Meanwhile,...