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Two decades ago affairs between the United States and Cuba had seen little improvement from the Cold War era. Today, U.S.-Cuban relations are in many respects still in poor shape, yet some cooperative elements have begun to take hold and offer promise for future developments. Illustrated by the ongoing migration agreement, professional military-to-military relations at the perimeter of the U.S. base near Guantánamo, and professional Coast Guard-Guardafrontera cooperation across the Straits of Florida, the two governments are actively exploring whether and how to change the pattern of interactions. The differences that divide the two nations are real, not the result of misperception, and thi...
Tiburcio Vasquez is, next to Joaquin Murrieta, America's most infamous Hispanic bandit. After he was hanged as a murderer in 1875, the Chicago Tribune called him "the most noted desperado of modern times." Yet questions about him still linger. Why did he become a bandido? Why did so many Hispanics protect him and his band? Was he a common thief and heartless killer who got what he deserved, or was he a Mexican American Robin Hood who suffered at the hands of a racist government? In this engrossing biography, John Boessenecker provides definitive answers. Bandido pulls back the curtain on a life story shrouded in myth — a myth created by Vasquez himself and abetted by writers who saw a tale...
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 Introduction: A Baseball Game -- 2 Intimate Enemies: Paradoxes in the Conflict between the United States and Cuba -- 3 Reshaping the Relations between the United States and Cuba -- 4 Cuba's National Security vis-à-vis the United States: Conflict or Cooperation? -- 5 Cuban-U.S. Cooperation in the Defense and Security Fields: Where Are We? Where Might We Be Able to Go? -- 6 Terrorism and the Anti-Hijacking Accord in Cuba's Relations with the United States -- 7 The European Union and U.S.-Cuban Relations -- 8 European Union Policy ...
A major reassessment of the rise and global impact of revolutionary Third World radicalism in the 1960s and 1970s.
This book analyzes the economic reforms and political adjustments that took place in Cuba during the era of Raúl Castro’s leadership and its immediate aftermath, the first year of his successor, Miguel Díaz-Canel. Faced with economic challenges and a political crisis of legitimacy now that the Castro brothers are no longer in power, the Cuban Revolution finds itself at another critical juncture, confronted with the loss of Latin American allies and a more hostile and implacable US administration.
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