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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post reporter David E. Hoffman comes the riveting biography of Oswaldo Payá, a dissident who dared to defy Fidel Castro, inspiring thousands of Cubans to fight for democracy. Oswaldo Payá was seven years old when Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba, promising to create a “free, democratic, and just Cuba.” But Castro instead created an authoritarian regime with little tolerance of free speech or thought. His secret police were trained to crush dissent by East Germany’s ruthless Stasi. Throughout Cuba’s 20th century history, the dream of democracy was often just within reach, only to be dashed by dictatorship and revived again by a new gener...
A Chinese proverb that reminds us of this book reads: "The strongest and most luxuriant tree lives from what it has underneath." Thus, Cuban culture has nourishing sources that must be fully known in order to enjoy and understand what we are. Generally, the analyses of the nation's profile pay attention to the Hispanic and African components, and the important role of the Chinese channel in our culture is often overlooked. The Chinese Trace in Cuban Literature is, without a doubt, the most notable effort so far to reveal this trace in our literature, from the 19th century to today, and in different literary genres and discursive types; as its author maintains: "From the creation of novel characters designed within a reproductive realism, the assumption of signs typical of Chinese culture and thought for the shaping of the text, the treatment of historical issueseither in the evolutionary outline of a lineage or in the investigation of significant events, the incursion into this problem from generic modalities or literary renovation proposals, to the aesthetic feat of the transcoding of forms and meanings from Chinese to our language and culture".
Amongst the "jewels of the CIA," the most secret, the deepest, the most compartmentalized operations and that, de facto, violated the supposed limits established for covert operations, we find from attempts on the Head of State ́s life to actions of psywar. All these terrorist action will be seen in The Cuba Project, which subsequently would take codified name of Mongoose, the most spectacular and tenebrous plan of covert operations that an American administration has ever carried out against the Cuban Revolution. Mongoose meant the decline of the chosen Gods to avenge the defeat of the Assault Brigade 2506 at the Bay of Pigs.
This book presents new aspects of the U.S. Cuba policy during Gerald R. Ford’s presidency (August 9, 1974‒January 20, 1977). Based in governmental and other sources from the U.S. and Cuba, the book examines how the Ford administration broke with Nixon’s hostile policy when the diplomatic and economic isolation of Cuba was ended in the OAS, even when the U.S. economic blockade prevailed. In line with the detente policy towards the USSR, the Ford administration strived to normalize the relations with Cuba through secret discussions. However, the Cuban involvement in the Angolan civil war ended this process of normalization, and the U.S. returned to a confrontational policy. Within this f...
On January 2, 1959, Fidel Castro, the rebel comandante who had just overthrown Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, addressed a crowd of jubilant supporters. Recalling the failed popular uprisings of past decades, Castro assured them that this time “the real Revolution” had arrived. As Jonathan Brown shows in this capacious history of the Cuban Revolution, Castro’s words proved prophetic not only for his countrymen but for Latin America and the wider world. Cuba’s Revolutionary World examines in forensic detail how the turmoil that rocked a small Caribbean nation in the 1950s became one of the twentieth century’s most transformative events. Initially, Castro’s revolution augured wel...
El texto es el resultado de una amplia investigación acerca del complot llevado a cabo para asesinar al presidente John F. Kennedy, enriquecido con informes recientemente desclasificados. Obra organizada por los grupos de poder de extrema derecha norteamericana con la participación de la contrarrevolución de origen cubano, miembros de las agencias federales y la mafia italo-americana, opuestos a la política kennediana de la «Nueva Frontera». La refutación a la implicación de Cuba en el asesinato, tanto por parte de Cuba, como del Congreso norteamericano. El libro consta de tres anexos esclarecedores para conocer la génesis del complot.
En este texto, el autor nos hace viajar por la historia y la memoria, en una suerte de máquina del tiempo para, magistralmente, desenmascarar, una vez más, al imperialismo yanqui y sus maquiavélicos planes para derrocar la revolución cubana. Con precisión y acuciosidad, el autor nos desglosa el panorama histórico, social y político en que nace y se consolida la joven revolución, asediada por el gobierno imperialista más poderoso del momento y que, constantemente, busca destruir el sistema político social que la isla implanta, así como a sus líderes, en particular al Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz. Escrìto sin academicismos, el libro se convierte en ávida y deleitable lectura, a la vez que respeta la rigurosidad del ensayo historiográfico.
Los protagonistas del Octubre Rojo de 1917, es el resultado de una investigación de más de dos años acerca de la impronta de la Revolución de Octubre y de un grupo significativo de hombres y mujeres que consagraron sus vidas a hacer la Revolución. A partir de conocer y valorar sus aciertos y errores, se abrieron nuevos caminos a los revolucionarios de todos los continentes en el siglo XX y XXI, y así hacer de nuestro mundo, un mundo mejor para todos.
En el presente libro el autor nos ofrece diecisiete textos, resultado de su experiencia, de más de cincuenta años de investigación, de las cusas y condiciones de la política de los Estados Unidos enfilada a erosionar los fundamentos del socialismo cubano. Aquí se exponen importantes acciones de guerra política llevadas a cabo por los servicios especiales norteamericanos, algunas consideradas como las «Joyas de la CIA». Entre ellas se encuentran: la Operación Mangosta, el Programa de Múltiple Vía, operaciones de terrorismo de estado, subversión política, guerra psicológica y la Operación AM/LACH, como un ejemplo de las acciones ejecutivas que, sobre el principio de la negación...
La más completa investigación sobre la guerra irregular que la CIA fomentó en Cuba durante los primeros años de la Revolución. Eduardo Ferrer, ex piloto de la CIA, afirma en su libro Operation Puma, The air battle of the Bay of Pigs, que entre los meses de septiembre de 1960 y marzo de 1961 se efectuaron 68 misiones de suministros aéreos de armas y explosivos sobre las montañas de Cuba para los grupos insurgentes.