num_pages: 423
description: 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 spiritedportrait 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 heartof 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'stalked 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 RafaelDiaz-Balart, the family of Elian Gonzalez, the friends and family of the legendary American fugitive Robert Vesco, the intrepid terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, and the inner circles of JebBush 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 Americanpresidents. 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, totrying to eliminate him. From Calle Ocho to Juan Miguel Gonzalez's kitchen table in Cardenas, from Guantanamo Bay to Union City to Washington, D.C., Ann Louise Bardach serves upan unforgettable portrait of Cuba and its exiles.
language: English
title: Cuba Confidential : The Extraordinary Tragedy of Cuba, Its Revolution and Its Exiles
titlecomplete: Cuba Confidential : The Extraordinary Tragedy of Cuba, Its Revolution and Its Exiles
genres: United States, History, Travel, Latin American, Spanish Literature, Journalism, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 230
publisher: Penguin Books