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Secret Missions to Cuba: Fidel Castro, Bernardo Benes, and Cuban Miami
Robert M. Levine
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Description for Secret Missions to Cuba: Fidel Castro, Bernardo Benes, and Cuban Miami
Paperback. Num Pages: 323 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; 1KJC; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW; JPS; JWKF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 327.
Secret Missions to Cuba reveals new insights into Fidel Castro's personality, details secret missions to Cuba under the Carter and Reagan administrations to negotiate the restoration of US-Cuban relations and provides an in-depth look at Miami's exile community since 1959. This groundbreaking story is told through Bernardo Benes - a lawyer who joined the refugee exodus from Castro's Cuba in 1960. Benes quickly became one of the leading voices advocating the integration of Cubans into the city's Anglo, old-boy power structure. In 1978, Cuban Intelligence recruited him as an emissary between the Carter administration and Cuba. He did the same ... Read more
Secret Missions to Cuba reveals new insights into Fidel Castro's personality, details secret missions to Cuba under the Carter and Reagan administrations to negotiate the restoration of US-Cuban relations and provides an in-depth look at Miami's exile community since 1959. This groundbreaking story is told through Bernardo Benes - a lawyer who joined the refugee exodus from Castro's Cuba in 1960. Benes quickly became one of the leading voices advocating the integration of Cubans into the city's Anglo, old-boy power structure. In 1978, Cuban Intelligence recruited him as an emissary between the Carter administration and Cuba. He did the same ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
323
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403960467
SKU
V9781403960467
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About Robert M. Levine
ROBERT M. LEVINE is Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Miami and the author of over a dozen books on Latin America and Cuba includingTropical Diaspora and the forthcoming Cambridge Concise History of Cuba.
Reviews for Secret Missions to Cuba: Fidel Castro, Bernardo Benes, and Cuban Miami
'Levine's detailed and extensive reporting should stand as a valuable contribution to 20th century history.' - Miami Today 'Bernardo Benes is an unlikely but true American hero...this book is a masterpiece of history and reporting which fleshes out one of the great human dramas of our time. Fascinating!' - Edna Buchanan, Pulitzer Prize Winner for General Reporting ... Read more