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Born into a wealthy Cuban family, he was raised in privilege and schooled at Yale. He began his career in 1954 as a chemist at the company in Havana. That life changed abruptly after he fled Fidel Castro's Cuba in 1961, an event he called the most significant in his life. He and his wife got out with a suitcase and 100 shares of Coca-Cola, which he never sold. He rejoined the company in Florida and progressed through the ranks. By 1974, as head of Coke's labs, he was one of only two top chemists allowed...
Goizueta's anonymity ended after he became a protege of another Coke legend, former CEO Robert W. Woodruff, who became increasingly impressed by the intensity and integrity of the man from Havana. With Woodruff's influence, Goizueta was tapped in 1981 to run the Atlanta-based company. At the time Coke was an omnipresent but floundering symbol of American business and culture. Subsequently, Goizueta became one of the most highly regarded of all CEOs, having turned one of the world's most nonessential consumer products into a money spinner with annual sales of $18.5 billion. "No one loved the Coca...
...most of the world, Gloria Estefan is a pop superstar, the goddess of salsa, the muse of Miami. But in the city dubbed Little Havana because of its large Cuban-exile population, Estefan, 40, is more than that. She is the emotion-laden embodiment of the Cuban-American dream. Her family fled Castro's communist regime when she was just two years old, and today thousands of Cuban exiles celebrate her success as though it were their own. Gloria, they exult, is the "glory" of Cuba...
...Miami's beloved daughter found herself under attack by many of the same people who once adored her. On Spanish-language radio, she was blasted as a pro-communist traitor. Fellow Cuban exiles threatened to burn her CDs in the streets of Calle Ocho, the main drag in Little Havana...
...life of their father, a distinguished scientist pledged to catalog "every one of Cuba's nearly extinct birds." Reina and her daughter plot to escape their imprisoning paradise, while Constancia's husband Heberto, aging and mild-mannered, joins a brigade that dreams of recapturing it. Born in Havana and raised in the U.S., Garcia does soaring, zesty justice to the vagaries of both malfunctioning Cuba and daydreaming South Florida...