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Who are you going to believe about Fidel Castro -- Oliver Stone, or the Cuban people?
Now, their riveting first-hand testimonies about life under the brutal Communist dictator
Unvanquished: Cuba's Resistance to Fidel Castro
by Enrique Encinosa
Cuba, close to America and frequently in our news, is a country hidden under a beard and cigar. At times, there are flashes -- the Mariel boatlift, the Elián González dispute, people who take to the sea in rafts -- when reality breaks through. Mostly, however, Americans do not fully understand what it means to live under a one-man dictatorship.
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In Unvanquished, Enrique Encinosa gives us the first comprehensive history in English of the 45-year war that Cuba's people have waged against Fidel Castro. A concise and riveting narrative, told mainly in the voices of its participants, Unvanquished shows unmistakeably that Castro's main opposition is not -- as his apologists claim -- the exile community in Miami or the U.S. government, but the Cubans who must live under his rule.
Faithful to its gritty subject matter, Unvanquished depicts the heroism and persistence of Cubans in fighting against a harshly repressive regime that has been able to project sympathetic images throughout the world. Many of the book's revelations concern details of America's involvement in the Cuban resistance. Encinosa also sheds new light on the Bay of Pigs, the Mariel boatlift, the Guantanamo refugee crisis and the Elián González dispute. The book includes a full account of the recent crackdown against Castro's political opponents.
Up-to-the-minute as well as historical, moving as well as informative, Unvanquished promises to be a turning point in Americans' understanding of a nearby country, close to our affections and still remaining to be known.
"Unvanquished tries to make us remember that, for forty-five years, the Cuban people have always kept fighting against the only totalitarian dictatorship in the Western Hemisphere. And they have had, if I may add, very little help from the outside world, despite the persistent, aggressive nature of Castro's regime -- even after we have declared war against terrorism. This is a good, solid and timely book." -- Adolfo Rivero Caro, columnist for El Nuevo Herald and co-founder of Cuba's human rights movement
"Fidel is not a Communist. Fidel is simply for himself. During his student days he admired Mussolini and quoted Hitler. If he had gained power twenty years earlier, he would have worn a swastika. Two centuries ago, he would have crowned himself emperor." -- Rafael Díaz-Balart, Cuban senator and Fidel Castro's former brother-in-law
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