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Starting with the groundbreaking 1981 exhibit called "Volumen I," New Art of Cuba provided the first comprehensive look at the works of the first generation of Cuban artists completely shaped by the 1959 revolution. This revised edition includes a new epilogue that discusses developments in Cuban art since the book's publication in 1994, including the exodus of artists in the early 1990s, the effects of the new dollar economy on the status of artists, and the shift away from socialist themes to more personal concerns in the artists' works. Twenty-four new color plates augment the more than 200 b&w illustrations of the original volume.
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In this gritty exposé, a firsthand look inside U.S. undercover operations targeting the immigrant smuggling, counterfeiting, and drug rings of Mexico’s dangerous mafia. Living under an assumed identity and risking his life were all in a day’s work for U.S. Government Agent Hipolito Acosta. He worked regularly in high-stakes undercover operations infiltrating Mexico’s murderous immigrant smuggling rings and drug cartels. Acosta’s investigations are legendary, both inside law enforcement and the crime cartels he helped neutralize. He had himself smuggled from Mexico to Chicago with a truckload of poor immigrants; worked his way into the confidences of a gang of international counterfe...
The Avelinos is a true story about a "Small Town High Time " Musician. Avelino Avalos played the guitar and sang in different bands in Safford, Arizona for over four decades. He raised his eleven children in South Eastern Arizona. Daughters memories about her dad included him gathering his instruments together getting them ready for playing, by tuning his smoke green Anniversary Gretchen Electric Guitar. Avelino played a variety of music, Flamenco, Country, Corridos, Rancheras and Rock. His bands included "The Lucky Four" Charlie Hemphill (Bass Guitar), his brother Bill on (Lead Guitar), Brooks Nutell on (Drums). "The Lucky Four had no problems getting gigs, putting a variety of music togeth...
Spy Bate memoirs revisit the time of the communist Cuba, the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War and CIA Operative Ron Lippert Jones' capture. In order to present the unabridged facts, the author candidly details the events that led up to his near execution, ten years of hell in Castro's most atrocious prisons and consequent genetic contamination that caused his daughter's birth defects. This book covers a diverse variety of subjects ranging from sabotage, espionage, life, death and biological exposure, and more.