THE CUBANS TO BE PUBLISHED MAY 26, 2020. NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER
Five families whose hopes, passions, dreams and nightmares in Cuba have revolved around one town, one interminable revolution and one inescapable reality. Available now on pre-order from:
The Cuban government has never given a full explanation for Fidel's deathbed edict forbidding any physical commemoration of his name and his legacy. No monuments. No busts. No avenues rechristened in his honor. It has always seemed strange since Revolutionary Cuba has...
Buena Vista Social Club, old cars, the graying Castro brothers--all have become enduring symbols of a Cuba that has already entered what demographers consider a "very advanced stage of transition." Transition is a demographic phenomenon that tracks a nation's progress...
The U.S. Department of Treasury has issued some clarifications about the Trump Administration's new policy on dealing with Cuba. The original is available here: https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/cuba_faqs_20170616.pdf
ProPublica, the investigative news organization, has published a terrifying account of how U.S. actions in Mexico led to the murders of dozens--the article says it could even be hundreds--of innocent people in the city of Allende, Mexico, who were caught up in a dr...
The Cuban government has never given a full explanation for Fidel's deathbed edict forbidding any physical commemoration of his name and his legacy. N...
Pulling Down History
August 23, 2017
In his monumental history of Cuba, the late Hugh Thomas painted a picture of a complex, deeply rooted society on the island that, over the course...
