"A close-up look at the battle between Miami and Havana for control of Cuba draws on exclusive interviews with Fidel Castrol, his inner circle, the family of Elián González, and others to examine the family feuds that underscore the forty-year standoff between the two cities and discusses the role of Miami extremists, CIA complicity, U.S. government involvement, and more."

CUBA CONFIDENCIAL (Spanish Edition)

History

Bardach, Ann Louise

Americas

Plaza y Janés.

Un esclarecedor relato del último capítulo de la vida de Fidel Castro: su cercano encuentro con la muerte en 2006, sus enemigos y la planeada sucesión de su hermano Raúl. Desde 1959, Fidel Castro ha presidido uno de los más controversiales y combativos gobiernos del mundo, enfrentando a los Estados Unidos y afincado en el centro de una cultura divida entre dos ciudades: Miami y La Habana. A partir de casi dos décadas de periodismo en profundidad y de incontables entrevistas con los protagonistas, Ann Louise Bardach ofrece en este fascinante libro una crónica deslumbrante sobre la confrontación política entre los Estados Unidos y Cuba, donde figuran tanto los hermanos Castro y otros miembros de la familia, como cubanos corrientes y oficiales y políticos en Miami, La Habana y Washington. El resultado es un doble retrato inolvidable del clima político de la isla más importante del Caribe: una investigación clave sobre su presente y su futuro tras medio siglo de dictadura, división y conflicto. Uno de los mejores libros del año de The Miami Herald

Sin Fidel: Los ultimos anos de Fidel Castro, sus enemigos y el futuro de Cuba (Spanish Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Vintage Espanol

Chronicles the short life and tragic death of Vicki Morgan, paramour of the late power broker Alfred Bloomingdale and recounts how their affair shook the highest levels of government and society

Vicki

Milton, Joyce

Regional U.S.

St Martins Pr

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

From America’s number one Cuba reporter, PEN award–winning investigative journalist Ann Louise Bardach, comes the big book on Cuba we’ve all been waiting for. An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth century’s wiliest political survivor and his fiefdom, Cuba Confidential is the gripping story of the shattered families and warring personalities that lie at the heart of the forty-three-year standoff between Miami and Havana. Famous to many Americans for her cover stories and media appearances, Ann Louise Bardach has been covering Cuba for a decade. She’s talked to the crooks, spooks and politicians who have made history, and to their hired assassins and confidants. Based on exclusive interviews with Fidel Castro, his sister Juanita, his former brother-in-law Rafael Díaz-Balart, the family of Elián González, the friends and family of the legendary American fugitive Robert Vesco, the intrepid terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, and the inner circles of Jeb Bush and the late exile leader Jorge Mas Canosa, Cuba Confidential exposes the hardball take-no-prisoners tactics of the Cuban exile leadership, and its manipulation and exploitation by ten American presidents. Bardach homes in on Fidel Castro and his cronies, taking us closer than we’ve ever been—and on the militant exiles who have devoted their lives, with CIA connivance, to trying to eliminate him. From Calle Ocho to Juan Miguel González’s kitchen table in Cárdenas, from Guantánamo Bay to Union City to Washington, D.C., Ann Louise Bardach serves up an unforgettable portrait of Cuba and its exiles.

Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana

Random House]

Community & Culture

Vintage

From the award-winning reporter and go-to source on Cuban-Miami politics Ann Louise Bardach comes a riveting, eye-opening account of the last chapter in the life of Fidel Castro: his near death and marathon finale, his enemies and their fifty-year failed battle to eliminate him, and the carefully planned succession and early reign of his brother Raúl. Ann Louise Bardach offers a spellbinding chronicle of the Havana-Washington political showdown, drawing on nearly two decades of reporting and countless interviews with everyone from the Comandante himself, his co-ruler and brother Raúl, and other family members, to ordinary Cubans as well as officials and politicos in Miami, Havana, and Washington. The result is an unforgettable dual portrait of Fidel and Raúl Castro -- arguably the most successful and enduring political brother team in history. Since 1959, Fidel Castro has been the supreme leader of Cuba, deftly checkmating his foes, both from within and abroad; confronting eleven American presidents; and outfoxing dozens of assassination attempts, vanquished only by collapsing health. As night descends on Castro's extraordinary fifty-year reign, Miami, Havana, and Washington are abuzz with anxious questions: What led to the lightning-bolt purge of key Cuban officials in March 2009? Who will be Raúl's heir? Will the U.S. embargo end now? Bardach offers profound and surprising answers to these questions as she meticulously chronicles Castro's protracted farewell and assesses his transformative impact on the world stage and the complex legacy that will long outlive him. She reports from three distinct vantage points: In Miami, where more than one million Cubans have fled, she interviews scores of exiles including Castro's would-be assassins Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles; in Washington, DC, she reports on the Obama administration's struggle to formulate a post-Castro strategy; in Havanah she permeates the bubble around the fiercely private and officially retired Castro to ascertain the extent of his undisclosed medical condition. Bardach delivers a compelling meditation on one of the most controversial, combative, and charismatic rulers in history. Without Fidel includes never-before-published reporting on Castro, his family, and his half-century grip on the largest country in the Caribbean while assessing how his departure will forever transform politics and policy in the Western Hemisphere -- and the world.

Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington

Scribner

From the award-winning reporter and go-to source on Cuban-Miami politics Ann Louise Bardach comes a riveting, eye-opening account of the last chapter in the life of Fidel Castro: his near death and marathon finale, his enemies and their fifty-year failed battle to eliminate him, and the carefully planned succession and early reign of his brother Raúl. Ann Louise Bardach offers a spellbinding chronicle of the Havana-Washington political showdown, drawing on nearly two decades of reporting and countless interviews with everyone from the Comandante himself, his co-ruler and brother Raúl, and other family members, to ordinary Cubans as well as officials and politicos in Miami, Havana, and Washington. The result is an unforgettable dual portrait of Fidel and Raúl Castro—arguably the most successful and enduring political brother team in history. Since 1959, Fidel Castro has been the supreme leader of Cuba, deftly checkmating his foes, both from within and abroad; confronting eleven American presidents; and outfoxing dozens of assassination attempts, vanquished only by collapsing health. As night descends on Castro's extraordinary fifty-year reign, Miami, Havana, and Washington are abuzz with anxious questions: What led to the lightning-bolt purge of key Cuban officials in March 2009? Who will be Raúl's heir? Will the U.S. embargo end? Bardach offers profound and surprising answers to these questions as she meticulously chronicles Castro's protracted farewell and assesses his transformative impact on the world stage and the complex legacy that will long outlive him. She reports from three distinct vantage points: In Miami, where more than one million Cubans have fled, she interviews scores of exiles including Castro's would-be assassins Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles; in Washington, DC, she reports on the Obama administration's struggle to formulate a post-Castro strategy; in Havana she permeates the bubble around the fiercely private and officially retired Castro to ascertain the extent of his undisclosed medical condition. Bardach delivers a compelling meditation on one of the most controversial, combative, and charismatic rulers in history. Without Fidel includes never-before-published reporting on Castro, his family, and his half-century grip on the largest country in the Caribbean while assessing how his departure will forever transform politics and policy in the Western Hemisphere—and the world.

Travel to Cuba in the company of its finest writers and gain an understanding of its remarkable mystique. The twenty-one stories in this collection — some of which appear in English for the first time — will take you on an odyssey through the country's rich past to its dynamic present, where it is poised at the brink of immense change. Arranged by the areas of Cuba they illuminate, these stories offer up a rich literary banquet. Contributors include Luis Aguilar León, María Eugenia Alegría Nuñez, Uva de Aragón, Reinaldo Arenas, Richard Blanco, Lino Novás Calvo, Calvert Casey, Alfonso Hernández Catá, Josefina de Diego, Abilio Estévez, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Cristina Garcia, Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, José Lezama Lima, Pablo Medina, Ana Menéndez, Ernesto Mestre, Mayra Montero, Achy Obejas, Senel Paz, Antonio José Ponte, and Zoé Valdés.

Cuba : A Travelers Literary Companion (Traveler's Literary Companion, 8)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Whereabouts Press

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CUBA CONFIDENCIAL (Spanish Edition)

Sin Fidel: Los ultimos anos de Fidel Castro, sus enemigos y el futuro de Cuba (Spanish Edition)

Vicki

Vicki

Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana

Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana

Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington

Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington

Cuba : A Travelers Literary Companion (Traveler's Literary Companion, 8)