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...BEEN CALLED BOTH A dictatorial "monster" and a modern-day Jose Marti, | determined to vanquish Fidel Castro just as Marti battled Spain to free Cuba a century ago. Miami millionaire Jorge Mas Canosa is perhaps the most influential Cuban outside Havana. Over the past decade, he has built the Cuban American National Foundation, a lobby group representing Miami's Cuban exiles, into a muscular bullyboy capable of swaying U.S. foreign policy and pressuring governments from Moscow to Mexico City...
Reporting from a paranoia-mad communist country has never been easy, and these days Cuba is a more difficult assignment than ever. Most journalists do the prescribed, unenlightening rounds of officialdom in Havana, sneak off to see a few dissidents, then interview cab drivers or disgruntled locals in food lines. Honesty is like bread -- a commodity on rations. Oppenheimer, a Pulitzer-prizewinning correspondent for the Miami Herald, found a way around this difficulty: he carried letters from Cubans in Miami to relatives on the island, thus gaining their trust. As a result, he captures a truer, if sadder, portrait...
What is missing from the book is Fidel. As in real life, he pulls the strings offstage, but he is rarely glimpsed up close. He appears for gloomy late-night ruminations with author Gabriel Garcia Marquez at a protocol house outside Havana and in a visit with children ages 6 to 14 where he drones on for three hours about the dialectics of Che. In the end, Oppenheimer doesn't make a convincing argument that Fidel is in his "final hour." His reporting, in fact, illustrates precisely how Castro remains in power: through a combination of personality, national pride...
...makes her debut when Ruby hosts precinct night for the Dallas police force. The night marks Ruby's big debut, also--he finally gets his big break with the bosses. His challenge is to use his drug running links to free Santos Alienate (Marc Lawrence), their man in Havana, catapults Ruby into the limelight and allows him to play with the big boys at a mob gathering in Las Vegas. Soon, However, the bar owner finds himself embroiled in events that are beyond his understanding and control...
...impressive first novel, Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia takes back her island. A former TIME correspondent and Miami bureau chief, Garcia left Havana with her family when she was two. Her story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the "sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond," as rhythmic as the music of Beny More...