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The sooner Cuba is free, the better.
Spanish rule, ending in 1898, was replaced more or less by the open rule of the United States, almost always with the ready assistance of governments bought and paid for by our interests, including the cane sugar industry.
When our government more or less lost interest in its Cuban interests, Charles (Lucky) Luciano, Meyer Lansky and other worthies of La Cosa Nostra stepped in.
With the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship on the last day of 1958, Fidel Castro's communist dictatorship succeeded to power, quickly turning the island into the Soviet Union's Caribbean colony, and almost causing a thermonuclear war in October 1962.
When the decayed soviet empire imploded some 15 years ago, Cuba simply degenerated into a private socialist hellhole reserve of Fidel Castro and his family.
I have never complained about the way the US exercised its imperialism abroad. Mainly because that kind of indirect rule of other peoples' countries has served my interests as an American consumer, and partially because I really don't give a damn.
But political and social hypocrisy has never been my style. And all I imagined the last time I stood beside the big yellow-colored concrete marker at the southernmost point in the United States at Key West, and gazed more or less due southward in the direction of Havana, 90 miles away, was a big flashy whorehouse employing a lot of good looking young girls from poor Cuban families.
Of course, there probably is a lot more to Cuba than just that. But wake me up from the dead, some 30 years after the Castro dictatorship has dissolved into history, and show me that something actually changed.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
By OSCAR M. RAMÍREZ-ORBEA, PH.D.
Cuba, I Remember You is a book about family, love, relationships, and survival in difficult circumstances in Cuba's pre and post revolution of the 1950's and 60's that all readers will find to be a wonderful reading experience.
See more about the book at:
http://cubairememberyou.zoomshare.com/
CUBA, I REMEMBER YOU/CUBA, TE RECUERDO
A collection of 14 short stories, all in Spanish and English, based on the author’s experiences of childhood before and after the Communist revolution. Includes Appendix for educators wishing to use the book in Spanish or English foreign language classes. Lots of nostalgia for those who knew Cuba in the 50’s and 60’s and plenty of humor for readers in general. Includes also many period family photographs that illustrate the stories and bring them vividly to life!
About the Author
Dr. Oscar M. Ramírez-Orbea, was born in Camagüey, Cuba, in 1955. He emigrated with his family to the US in 1966, after completing elementary school in his home country. He longs one day to return to his native city of Camagüey and to all the fond memories it holds for him. CUBA, I REMEMBER YOU/CUBA, TE RECUERDO is Dr. Ramírez’s first narrative work.
Available now from Airleaf Publishing (www.airleaf.com) or call today to order your copy at 1-800-342–6068.
§ Product Details
§ Paperback: 392 pages
§ Publisher: Airleaf Publishing; 1st edition (January 10, 2006)
§ Language: English, Spanish
§ ISBN: 1594539553
New work by the same author, published and in bookstores by winter of 2007:
Cuba, Between History and Legend
A collection of short stories based on Cuban legends and unusual histories, all told in thoroughly original and creative ways. All stories are narrated in English and Spanish on facing pages. Includes also substantial background information on the actual events on which the stories are based, as well as references for follow-up reading, and historical illustrations for all the stories. For brief descriptions of the stories, go to www.cubairememberyou.zoomshare.com On the market by year’s end. Cuba … like you’ve never read it before!
Por el mismo autor:
Cuba, Entre la Historia y la Leyenda
Una colección de cuentos cortos basados en leyendas cubanas y en eventos insólitos de la historia de Cuba, todos narrados en un estilo originalísimo y de gran fantasía. Se narran todos los cuentos en inglés y en español, en páginas opuestas. Incluye considerable información adicional sobre el fondo histórico de cada cuento, al igual que sugerencias para otras lecturas sobre la misma temática, y se incluyen ilustraciones históricas de cada uno de los cuentos. Para leer breves descripciones de cada cuento, favor de dirgirse a www.cubairememberyou.zoomshare.com En venta hacia finales del año. Cuba ¡como nunca te la imaginaste!
Of course we all lose our tempers now and then. Dean freely admits to being imperfect in this regard, which is why regulars to this establishment will generally be cut more slack than people who we don't know very well.
Still: behave like an adult, or go find somewhere else to play. Thanks.