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Who Was Fidel Castro?

Who Was Fidel Castro?

Sarah Fabiny

When Fidel Castro died on November 25, 2016, many people around the world responded with mixed emotions.
Fidel:: A Critical Portrait

Fidel:: A Critical Portrait

Tad Szulc

From Jesuit schools to jungle hideouts and the Palace of the Revolution, here is Fidel...The Untold Story. Never before has any biographer had such close access to Fidel Castro as did Tad Szulc.
The Shot

The Shot

Philip Kerr

When a mob hitman slated to take out Fidel Castro disappears, the underground rumor mill begins to circulate word that the missing assassin is now gunning for JFK himself. Reprint.
The U.S. Policy on Cuba

The U.S. Policy on Cuba

Amy Francis

Examines the positive and negative effects of the United States embargo against Cuba and the long-term outlook for the country following Fidel Castro's resignation.
Cuban Angel - Courage Without Limits

Cuban Angel - Courage Without Limits

Maria Fernandez

Maria Fernandez was born in Cuba the year Fidel Castro and his revolution took over the country.
The City and the Grassroots: A Cross-Cultural Theory of ...

The City and the Grassroots: A Cross-Cultural Theory of ...

Manuel Castells

1 A research project conducted by Joaquin Duque and Ernesto Pastrana of the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, particularly on four compamentos: Nueva La Habana, Bernardo O'Higgins, 26 de Julio, and Fidel Castro.
Re-reading Jose Marti (1853-1895): One Hundred Years Later

Re-reading Jose Marti (1853-1895): One Hundred Years Later

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Presents a collection of essays on Jose Marti and his works, covering such topics as modernity, the body in his poetry, and his influence on Fidel Castro.
Cuba's Baseball Defectors: The Inside Story

Cuba's Baseball Defectors: The Inside Story

Peter C. Bjarkman

Our first day in town we headed out to the very same Changa Stadium, where ESPN investigative reporter Paula Lavigne was planning to begin a series of formal interviews with the younger Castro, Fidel's son, former national team doctor, and ...
King of Cuba: A Novel

King of Cuba: A Novel

Cristina Garcia

A “darkly hilarious” (Elle) novel about a fictionalized Fidel Castro and an octogenarian Cuban exile obsessed with seeking revenge by the National Book Award finalist Cristina García, this “clever, well-conceived dual portrait shows ...
Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes

Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes

William Kennedy

So begins William Kennedy's latest novel -- a tale of revolutionary intrigue, heroic journalism, crooked politicians, drug-running gangsters, Albany race riots, and the improbable rise of Fidel Castro.
Cuba in Transition: Papers and Proceedings of the Fifteenth ...

Cuba in Transition: Papers and Proceedings of the Fifteenth ...

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Comparative Theoretical Approaches to Cuba's Underground Economy Ted Henken, Baruch College Fidel Castro's Net Worth: Conjectures and Approximations Man'a Werlau, Orbis International Discussants: Ernesto Hernandez-Cati; ...
Global Visions of Olof Palme, Bruno Kreisky and Willy ...

Global Visions of Olof Palme, Bruno Kreisky and Willy ...

B. Vivekanandan

Fidel Castro, “An Internationalist Vision”, in Kofi Buenor Hadjor, ed., New Perspectives in..., n. 3, p. 8. Olof Palme, “Sweden's Security Policy”, speech delivered at the Stockholm Institute of International Affairs, on 12 December 1985 . See E. S. ...
ACT OF RETRIBUTION: The Military-Industrial-Intelligence ...

ACT OF RETRIBUTION: The Military-Industrial-Intelligence ...

J.P. PHILLIPS

According to author Edward T. Haslam, David Ferrie was part of a top-secret government program headed by distinguished cancer researcher, Dr. Mary Sherman to develop a cancer cocktail which was to be used to kill Fidel Castro. Ferrie's ...
Nationalism and National Projects in Southern Africa: New ...

Nationalism and National Projects in Southern Africa: New ...

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It even became more popular during Amilcar Cabral's revolutionary leadership in Guinée Bissau, for more information refer to Jihan El Tahri 2007. Cuba Une Odyssée Africaine: Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Patrice Lumumba, Amilcar Cabral , ...
Fiesta de diez pesos: Music and Gay Identity in Special ...

Fiesta de diez pesos: Music and Gay Identity in Special ...

Moshe Morad

In the course of eight visits between 1995 and 2007, the last dozen years of Fidel Castro’s reign, Moshe Morad became absorbed in Havana’s gay scene, where he created a wide social network, attended numerous secret gatherings-from ...
Neoliberal Globalisation and the Third World

Neoliberal Globalisation and the Third World

Fidel Castro

2001, 64 pp, $5.95 Bruce Landau. 2002, 64 pp, $5.95 D Marxism, Socialism & Religion by Karl Marx et al. 2001, 160 pp, $14.95 D Marxism Versus Anarchism by Karl Marx et al. 2001, 240 pp, $19.95 D Marxist Economics A Handbook of Basic ...
The Poetry and Prose of Rosalía de Castro: A Bilingual ...

The Poetry and Prose of Rosalía de Castro: A Bilingual ...

Rosalía de Castro

This is a thorough volume of poetry and pose from Rosalia de Castro (1837-1885) translated into English and prevides essential information about the Galician land and language, supernatural spirits and shadows so significant in her works.
Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro

Serge Raffy

Dopo anni di ricerche, Serge Raffy traccia il ritratto vivido di un personaggio complesso e inquietante, figura camaleontica, Líder Máximo, "Stalin dei tropici", ripercorrendo le tappe della sua vita e della sua parabola politica: dalle ...
Castro's Dream

Castro's Dream

Lucy Wadham

Full of sustained menace, of reluctant yet addictive relationships, Castro's Dream is a story of love and the forces that are its undoing.
Rio de Janeiro: Carnival under Fire

Rio de Janeiro: Carnival under Fire

Ruy Castro

With his own Carioca good humour and spellbinding storytelling gifts, Ruy Castro brings the reader thrillingly close to the flames.
Meu querido canalha

Meu querido canalha

Ruy Castro

Os autores reunidos neste livro revelam artimanhas e obsessões desse delicioso personagem. Ruy Castro apresenta um insaciável Don Juan no Rio contemporâneo.
Exemplary Ambivalence in Late Nineteenth-Century Spanish ...

Exemplary Ambivalence in Late Nineteenth-Century Spanish ...

Elisabeth L. Austin

... Germany: Peter Lang, 1997), and Aileen Dever's side-by-side analysis of Silva and Rosalia de Castro based on similarities between their lives and poetic work in The Radical Insufficiency of Human Life: The Poetry of R. de Castro and IA.
Modern Spain

Modern Spain

Enrique Ávila López

Further Reading Dever, John P., and Aileen Dever. The Poetry and Prose of Rosalía de Castro: A Bilingual Facing Page Edition. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. March, Kathleen. “Rosalía de Castro,” in World Literature in Spanish .
Ungáua!:

Ungáua!:

Ruy Castro

'Ungaua!' reúne 101 crônicas de Ruy Castro.
The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the ...

The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the ...

James G. Blight

The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis transports the reader back to October 1962, telling a story as gripping as any fictional apocalyptic novel.
Legendary Locals of Castro Valley, Hayward, and San Lorenzo, ...

Legendary Locals of Castro Valley, Hayward, and San Lorenzo, ...

Doris Marciel

The Hayward area is a region in California made up of a city, Hayward, and two unincorporated towns, San Lorenzo and Castro Valley.
Bilac vê estrelas

Bilac vê estrelas

Ruy Castro

Bilac vê estrelas é quase uma chanchada, quase uma comédia-pastelão à brasileira. Em sua estréia na literatura, Ruy Castro revela-se um ficcionista que, como seus leitores já sabiam, é um especialista em bom humor.
The Radical Insufficiency of Human Life: The Poetry of R. de ...

The Radical Insufficiency of Human Life: The Poetry of R. de ...

Aileen Dever

... in Spanish and Portuguese Poetry for Geoffrey Connell. Glasgow: U of Glasgow P, 1985. 16-27. . "Rosalia de Castro, criticism 1950-1989: The Need for a New Approach." BHS 60 (1983): 211-219. _. "Rosalia de Castro's Later Poetry and ...
Série de publicações

Série de publicações

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2' r. do Rosário, 57 Joaquim José de Castro Pedro José de Castro 3' r. do Rosário. 68 Francisco José Fialho Francisco de Paula Fernandes Santiago 4' r. dos Ourives, 99 João Marques Perdigão, imp. João Pedro Ferreira de Sousa Coelho, ...
Índice de la colección de don Luis de Salazar y Castro. Tomo X.

Índice de la colección de don Luis de Salazar y Castro. Tomo X.

Luis de Salazar y Castro, Baltasar Cuartero y Huerta, Antonio de Vargas Zúñiga y Montero de Espinosa (Marqués de Siete Iglesias)

P. Francisco Sota, ob. cit. Apéndice, escritura 35. B-10, f° 16 v. 18.494. 42. — No del todo, en vano, el conde Lucanor llama reina de Navarra a doña Estefanía de Armengol, segunda o tercera mujer del conde don Rodrigo González. Bio, f° 18.

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