Leaving Castro's Cuba - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Leaving Castro's Cuba write by Marina Villa. This book was released on 2012. Leaving Castro's Cuba available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Zeida's notes: In that summer of 1962 I was told to teach a group of basic secondary teachers a summer course in math. It was a nice group and we enjoyed it without ever talking of politics. But now my mind was made up. I was going to leave the country that very same year. Everything was completely controlled by the government. There was not any personal freedom. I didn't want my girls to grow up with such rigid controls. I wanted them free, so I had to leave. At the time she was not prepared for the obstacles she'd have to face. This is the story of one middle-class family who shares in the excitement of Castro's victory only to experience disillusionment and betrayal. Struggling against repression and economic hardships, Marina's mother, Zeida, a teacher and single mother, goes to extraordinary measures to protect her daughters and defend her principles. Marina Villa's illuminating account of life in Cuba during its communist transformation and the family's immigration to the United States is an inspiring gift that puts into full relief the Cuban-American experience. Marina uses excerpts from her mother's writings, interviews with friends and family members, and her own memories to tell her mother's story. Full of the same spirit her mother brought to her life, Leaving Castro's Cuba: The Story of an Immigrant Family recounts their journey while weaving a rich tapestry of familial sacrifice, courage, and love.
1969—Leaving Cuba, Spain and the Usa
1969—Leaving Cuba, Spain and the Usa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 1969—Leaving Cuba, Spain and the Usa write by Felix A Garcia. This book was released on . 1969—Leaving Cuba, Spain and the Usa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book tells the story of our journey leaving Cuba in 1969 at the peak of the Cuban Revolution. That was a time when anyone leaving the country was considered a traitor, especially for a person previously integrated into the revolution. It was a very long and painful process, with four children and leaving the country penniless. This is my story of how we were able to overcome all the hurdles, disappointments, frustrations, and setbacks traveling first to Spain and later to the United States.
Escape from Castro's Cuba
Escape from Castro's Cuba - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Escape from Castro's Cuba write by Tim Wendel. This book was released on 2021-03. Escape from Castro's Cuba available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Named a 2021 Top Thriller by Alta Journal 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist in Action/Adventure Fiction 2021 Professional Achievement Award, Johns Hopkins University faculty Finalist for the 2021 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year In this visionary sequel to Castro’s Curveball, the former Washington Senators Minor League catcher has returned to Havana with a small role in a movie being filmed on location. Billy Bryan soon realizes that this place and his past remain as star-crossed as when he played winter ball in the Cuban capital decades before. Against his better judgment, Billy becomes entangled in a scheme to spirit a top baseball prospect off the island. This pits him against his old friend Fidel Castro. Despite being in his final days, the dictator remains a dangerous adversary, as does the Cuban sports machine and the Mexican crime syndicates that now direct baseball talent toward the U.S. Major Leagues. In Escape from Castro’s Cuba, Billy must once again navigate the crosscurrents of the so-called City of Columns: a place where the sunsets from the Hotel Nacional along the Malecón breakwater are as beautiful as ever, but where the alleyways in Old Havana still fan out, crooked and broken, like an old catcher’s fingers.
Leaving Cuba
Leaving Cuba - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Leaving Cuba write by Kathlyn Gay. This book was released on 2000-01-01. Leaving Cuba available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Considers the various ways children have escaped from Communist Cuba and found refuge in the United States through different plans set up to help them, from the early 1960s to today.
Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away
Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away write by David Powell. This book was released on 2023-09-05. Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bringing together an unprecedented number of extensive personal stories, this book shares the triumphs and heartbreaking moments experienced by some of the first Cubans to come to the United States after Fidel Castro took power in 1959.
