[PDF] To Return To Cuba eBook

Author : Tony Mendoza
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 38,53 MB
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292788150

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“A subtle yet striking collection of sepia-like photographs depicting life in Cuba, coupled with the perceptive observations of a Cuban exile returning home.” —Miami Herald Imagine being unable to return to your homeland for thirty-six years. What would you do if you finally got a chance to go back? In 1996, after travel restrictions between the United States and Cuba were relaxed, Cuban exile Tony Mendoza answered that question. Taking his cameras, notebooks, and an unquenchable curiosity, he returned for his first visit to Cuba since the summer of 1960, when he emigrated with his family at age eighteen. In this book he presents over eighty evocative photographs accompanied by a beautifully written text that mingles the voices of many Cubans with his own to offer a compelling portrait of a resilient people awaiting the inevitable passing of the socialist system that has failed them. His photographs and interviews bear striking witness to the hardships and inequalities that exist in this workers’ “paradise,” where the daily struggle to make ends meet on an average income of eight dollars a month has created a longing for change even in formerly ardent revolutionaries. At the same time, Cuba—Going Back is an eloquent record of a personal journey back in time and memory that will resonate with viewers and readers both within and beyond the Cuban American community. It belongs on the shelves of anyone who values excellent photography and well-crafted prose. “This book, based on the photos and interviews he conducted on his trip, is a remarkable first-hand account of today’s Cuba.” —Library Journal

Author : Lorenzo F. Gonzalez
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,83 MB
Release : 2017-06-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1387017047

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"To Return to Cuba" is the riveting true story of the author's experiences as a teenager during the Cuban Revolution. He shares rare, first-hand accounts of the Bay of Pigs and the Missile Crisis from his point of view as a Cuban revolutionary soldier, and personal experiences with Fidel Castro at the University of Havana. As a Cuban student studying in Hungary, his views of the revolution evolve, forcing him to attempt a harrowing escape from Castro, Cuba and Communism.

Author : Ruth Behar
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,69 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813541891

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This is the story of the author's return to learn about and meet the people who are keeping Judaism alive in Cuba today.

Author : Michael Anthony Bellows
Publisher : Kettle Pub.
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Cuba
ISBN : 9780615266916

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Guide to Cuba that helps U.S. citizens make intelligent choices about traveling to Cuba with or without the required permit from the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control. Provides tips from a veteran Cuba traveler. How to get there, where to stay, how to get around, changing money,dangers and annoyances, avoiding the Revolutionary police, political issues, about the communist government, unique Cuban laws, and social customs. Includes maps, an extensive reference section, illustrations, and color photos. Sanctioned by the Center for Cuban Studies in N.Y.C. Reviews available on Amazon.com.

Author : Peter Moruzzi
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 22,44 MB
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 142360993X

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Take a trip to the golden age of Havana in this gorgeously illustrated volume of vintage photographs, postcards, brochures, and other ephemera. Featuring hundreds of historic images and cultural artifacts, Havana Before Castro documents how the Cuban capital evolved from a Prohibition Era getaway destination to a heady blend of glittering nightclubs, outrageous cabarets, all-night bars, and backstreet brothels. Here, captured in one amazing book, is the drama, passion, intrigue, and opulence of a legendary city during its heyday—before the Castro regime took over and Americans were banned from travel to this tropical paradise. In chapters covering such topics as Cuban rum and cigars, the world-famous Tropicana Club, and Havana’s association with the mob, author Peter Moruzzi provides essential historical context for the many fascinating and evocative images.

Author : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 31,68 MB
Release : 1860
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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Offers a guide to changing current thinking to avoid the corporate media hype, shaped by brand-names, celebrities, and empty gloss, that defines our modern culture.

Author : Elio F. Beltran
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 39,20 MB
Release : 2003-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1462825648

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Xlibris, the leading print-on-demand self-publishing services provider, announced today the release of a new special edition of Back to Cuba: The Return of the Butterflies, an engaging book written by multi-awarded authored Elio F. Beltran. The text tells a story that evolves around real personalities of the process including a brief revealing encounter with the then student leader Fidel Castro. Readers will meet Michael, the protagonist chosen by the author for this true story that in itself goes beyond an apparent fictional novel to become not only the love story that it is, but brings fresh insight into the contemporary history of Cuba in spite of the fact that, as the author have said, he has not intended to write neither a political nor a history book. He nonetheless develops into the life within the process, as a participant first, including peripheral accounts of guerilla warfare, and his life as an exiled artist in the United States. After forty-two years of his exile, he reaches a poignant decision of going back to Cuba to witness the dramatic changes of places and people that he can barely recognize after all the years. His exploits will also give readers provocative insight about the contemporary dilemma of the Cuban exile community as well as the challenges confronting the new US government of Barack Obama. With the recent developments on both the United States and Cuba, Back to Cuba: The Return of the Butterflies is easily the most timely book to read. In light of policy changes from both nations, this book clearly defines how much has changed.

Author : Tim Wendel
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,89 MB
Release : 2021-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 149622292X

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Named a 2021 Top Thriller by Alta Journal ​2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist in Action/Adventure Fiction 2021 Professional Achievement Award, Johns Hopkins University faculty Finalist for the 2021 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year In this visionary sequel to Castro’s Curveball, the former Washington Senators Minor League catcher has returned to Havana with a small role in a movie being filmed on location. Billy Bryan soon realizes that this place and his past remain as star-crossed as when he played winter ball in the Cuban capital decades before. Against his better judgment, Billy becomes entangled in a scheme to spirit a top baseball prospect off the island. This pits him against his old friend Fidel Castro. Despite being in his final days, the dictator remains a dangerous adversary, as does the Cuban sports machine and the Mexican crime syndicates that now direct baseball talent toward the U.S. Major Leagues. In Escape from Castro’s Cuba, Billy must once again navigate the crosscurrents of the so-called City of Columns: a place where the sunsets from the Hotel Nacional along the Malecón breakwater are as beautiful as ever, but where the alleyways in Old Havana still fan out, crooked and broken, like an old catcher’s fingers.

Author : Julia E Sweig
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 20,89 MB
Release : 2009-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 019974081X

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Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive waves of Cuban immigration and Castro's larger-than-life persona. Cubans are now a major ethnic group in Florida, and the exile community is so powerful that every American president has kowtowed to it. But what do most Americans really know about Cuba itself? In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia Sweig, one of America's leading experts on Cuba and Latin America, presents a concise and remarkably accessible portrait of the small island nation's unique place on the world stage over the past fifty years. Yet it is authoritative as well. Following a scene-setting introduction that describes the dynamics unleashed since summer 2006 when Fidel Castro transferred provisional power to his brother Raul, the book looks backward toward Cuba's history since the Spanish American War before shifting to more recent times. Focusing equally on Cuba's role in world affairs and its own social and political transformations, Sweig divides the book chronologically into the pre-Fidel era, the period between the 1959 revolution and the fall of the Soviet Union, the post-Cold War era, and-finally-the looming post-Fidel era. Informative, pithy, and lucidly written, it will serve as the best compact reference on Cuba's internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.

Author : Ruth Behar
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,50 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780472066117

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Cuban and Cuban-American scholars, writers, and artists celebrate the possibility of overcoming divisions of politics and hate