Title: Disidencia
Description: "Personal account by one of Cuba's more prominent academic dissidents of how and why he broke with the system, went to prison, and joined the community of 'civic dissidents.' Now in exile, Hidalgo provides profiles of dissident leaders in Cuba and in exile, raises important questions regarding the effectiveness of civic resistance, documents instances of abuse, harrassment, and repression of human rights activists by governments, and concludes that Cuba's politics of hatred and intolerance are a recurring historical nightmare"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Subjects: Dissenters, History, Politics and government, Resistance to Government, Cuba, history, 1959-
Places: Cuba
Time periods: 1959-