José Martí Reader
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Writings on the Americas
Introduction by Ivan Schulman
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This elegant anthology presents the full breadth of José Martí's work as a teacher, journalist, revolutionary and poet. It includes his political essays and writings on culture, his journalism, letters and selections of his poetry, published here in both Spanish and English. Read more »
The Fertile Prison
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Fidel Castro in Batista's jails
Mario Mencía
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The Fertile Prison is the story of the period in which Fidel Castro and his young comrades, including two women, were imprisoned after the July 26, 1953, attack on the Moncada military garrison, and how the Batista dictatorship was eventually forced to release them. Read more »
Cuba and the United States
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A chronological history
Jane Franklin
This chronological history is an invaluable resource for scholars, teachers, journalists, legislators, and anyone interested in international relations, offering an unprecedented vision of US-Cuba relations. Read more »
The Cuba Project
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The secret war the CIA lost
Fabián Escalante
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The intriguing tale of a “regime change” project that failed. The CIA’s “Cuba Project,” initiated to remove Fidel Castro after the 1959 revolution, became the largest-ever covert action program conducted by one nation against another. Read more »
Havana-Miami
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The US-Cuba migration conflict
Jesús Arboleya
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In the summer of 1994, the Caribbean Sea became the scene of a mass exodus of Cubans as they launched their homemade rafts in the direction of the United States. What were the origins of this "rafter crisis"? How has migration—and the Cuban émigré community—been used by Washington against Cuba since the 1959 revolution? And why has this become such an important US domestic issue? Read more »
Letters of Love and Hope
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The Story of the Cuban Five
Alice Walker with the families of the Cuban Five
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The story of five Cubans serving lengthy sentences in US prisons for the "crime" of trying to prevent terrorism against Cuba. Introduced by Alice Walker, with a preface by Cuban poet Nancy Morejon, this book includes excerpts from diaries and letters from and to children, wives and parents of the five Cubans imprisoned in the United States for "espionage," providing a glimpse of how ordinary families strive to maintain connections in extraordinary circumstances. Read more »
Salvador Allende Reader
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Chile’s voice of democracy
Edited by James D. Cockcroft and Jane Carolina Canning
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On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a bloody coup against President Salvador Allende in Chile. Allende died in the Presidential Palace as it was attacked by Pinochet's army. This first-ever anthology presents Salvador Allende's voice and his vision of a more democratic, peaceful and just world to a new generation. Read more »
War, Racism and Economic Injustice
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The global ravages of capitalism
Fidel Castro
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A damning analysis of the world economic and political order from one of the principal voices of the Third World. Always controversial and never reticent, Fidel Castro describes neoliberal globalization as a new system of "global apartheid." Read more »
AfroCuba
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An anthology of Cuban writing on race, politics and culture
Edited by Jean Stubbs and Pedro Pérez Sarduy
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What is it like to be black in Cuba? Does racism exist in a revolutionary society that claims to have abolished it? How does the legacy of slavery and segregation live on in today's Cuba? Read more »
Cuba and the Missile Crisis
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The Dramatic Inside Story
Carlos Lechuga
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For the first time, Cuba's view of the most serious crisis of the Cold War is told by one of the leading participants. Rushed to New York during the crisis to take up the post of Cuba's ambassador to the United Nations, Carlos Lechuga provides the Cuban version of what really occurred when the world was on the brink of a nuclear catastrophe. Read more »
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