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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Our Woman in Havana chronicles the past several decades of US-Cuba relations from the bird's-eye view of State Department veteran and longtime Cuba hand Vicki Huddleston, our top diplomat in Havana under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush. After the US embassy in Havana was closed in 1961, relations between the two countries broke off. A thaw came in 1977, with the opening of a de facto embassy in Havana, the US Interests Section, where Huddleston...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
An eye-opening account of the last chapter in the life of Fidel Castro: his near death, his enemies and their fifty-year failed battle to eliminate him, and the carefully planned succession and early reign of his brother Raul.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición en esta colección.
Language
Español
Description
"Este libro narra las memorias personales de esa posquerra sin guerra que en Cuba recibió el curioso nombre, en clave eufemística, de Período Especial. En un registro tragicómico, el autor nos sumerge en los infiernos de la debacle económica, social, política e ideológica del país insular, y analiza las estrategias contraculturales que adoptó la juventud cubana tras la disolución del bloque soviético a inicios de los años noventa...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Over a period of five years, beginning when Fidel Castro stepped down from his presidency after almost a half-century of reign, journalist Julia Cooke embedded herself in Cuba, gaining access to a dynamic Havana--one that she found populated with twenty-five-year-old Marxist philosophy students, baby-faced anarchists, children of the whiskey-drinking elite, Santería trainees, pregnant prostitutes, and more. Combining intimate storytelling with...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
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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