"Informacion arma contra la ignorancia " by Conchita Bouza

Uno de los problemas que enfrentan los cubanos en el exterior es
la falta de informacion. ? Como poder alcanzar una base informativa
que te ayude a protegerte de tu ignorancia? :

La primera informacion que un cubano debe tener es informacion de
Cuba. Esta informacion podemos adquirirla a traves de los cientos de
cubanos que a diario emigran . Ellos son un fuente directa ,que nos
ayudara a familiarizarnos con los problemas que ellos han sufrido.
De que nos puede servir esta informacion. Si usted es la de las per-
sonas que planea regresar a Cuba , debe tener una minima idea de
los obstaculos que encontrara a su regreso. El periodista peruano
Guillermo Descalzi en su lectura en la Universidad del Sur de Califor-
nia en el 2002, dijo - todos nosotros de una manera u otra podremos
ayudar a nuestro pais. gracias a las profesiones , relaciones y logros
que usted ha alcanzado fuera de su pais. Cuba ha sufrido tres grandes
emigraciones. La primera fue al rebelarnos del dominio español, la
segunda cuando el gobierno de Gerardo Machado y la tercera cuando
el regimen castrista. Aunque estemos en el 2009, los problemas que
los cubanos que residen fuera y dentro de Cuba enfrentaremos seran
los mismo que enfrentaron a principios del 1900, bajo el gobierno
de Estrada Palma. En aquellos tiempos no teniamos moneda, nuestros
campos estaban devastados por la guerra, y para colmo nuestra econo-
mia habia caido. Lo primero que se hizo en Cuba, fue renovar el sistema
de Alcantarrillado. El plan se logro hacer gracias a un prestamo que
Estados Unidos hizo al nuevo gobierno cubano. Necesitaremos presta-
mos, necesitaremos renovar nuestro sistema de alcantarrillado, carrete-
ras, transporte, vivienda. La historia se repite, pero con diferentes
personajes. La informacion es el arma mortal que uno tiene contra el
mal. Nadie tomara ventajas de nosotros , si nos informamos y a la vez
los cubanos que deseen regresar, tendran una idea exacta de lo que
enfrentaran. Para adquirir cierta informacion sobre los ultimos cambios
hechos en Cuba , uno de los libros que te ayudaria es " CUBA ROJA "
del escritor Roman Orozco. Cuba Roja en sus 947 paginas informa sobre
ultimos cambios que el regimen castrista ha hecho en el Pais, despues de
de la caida del poderio Sovietico. La informacion es un arma que te ayu-
dara a entender el futuro de Cuba y la aportacion que a tu regreso podras
dar. Hemos navegado en nuevas tierras con un gobieno en nuestra contra.
Emigres a Europa o America los cubanos somos un grano de arena en el
campo de la politica internacional. El reves que sufrimos cuando Bahia de
Cochinos , es el mismo que sufrimos cuando el Caso Elian. La politicia de
la Casablanca del gobierno de John Kennedy giro un poco a nuestro favor
por el pavor que el comunismo provocaba a Estados Unidos en aquellos
tiempos. Cuando el sonado Caso Elian los vientos fueron desfavorable
para los cubanos, por ser Clinton democrata y pertenecer al ala izquierda
del Partido Democrata de Estados Unidos. Sufrimos la censura de
cuando la reportera Diane Sawyer . La informacin que gozamos en el pre-
sente nos puede servir de gran ayuda. Por ejemplo si quisieramos saber
de la maquiavelica de Diane Sawyer , usted puede adquirir informacion
de esta " maquiavelica" a traves de Norman Solomon y tambien podra in-
fromarse que a la Sawyer le han dado el puesto que dejara vacante Gibson.
Gibson en el pasado fue pareja en un programa con una joven cubana.
by Norman Solomon

Nearly five years after its purchase of ABC, the Disney Company made history in late March by subjecting a confused 6-year-old boy to a preposterous "interview." For ABC News superstar Diane Sawyer, it was all in a day's work. But former viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club had good reason to cringe. Whatever his failings, Mickey never engaged in such flagrant child abuse on national television.
For three days, "Good Morning America" featured excerpts from Sawyer's visit with Elian Gonzalez, a traumatized child whose departure from Cuba several months ago ended with a shipwreck that killed his mother. Sawyer sat on the floor with little Elian and eased into questions about whether he'd rather live in Cuba or Florida. The footage, repackaged for ABC's "20/20" show, was all grist for the ABC/Disney profit mill.

Many psychiatrists, pediatricians and other specialists in children's health strongly criticized the faux interview as damaging to the small boy. The spectacle was even too much for Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a hardliner against the Castro regime, who called the televised sessions "inexcusable" and said: "It breaks my heart to see a 6-year-old child on TV being interviewed about things that he has no idea what's going on."

So why did Diane Sawyer -- and other bigshots at ABC/Disney -- insist on carrying out the scheme? For the same reasons that they pursue so many of their projects: Arrogance. Self-promotion. And greed.

Diane Sawyer tomara el puesto de Gilson. Gilson hacia pareja en el pasado
con una joven reportera cubana.
Although they worked closely for more than a decade, Gibson makes no direct reference to Sawyer in the statement, and a source close to the departing anchor described him as "livid" that she's succeeding him. An ABC executive called this "nonsense," and Westin said he told Gibson from their earliest conversations about his retirement that Sawyer would be his replacement.

Libros que puedes adquirir en Barnes & Noble

In the nineteenth century Cuba produced more great men than the rest of the Caribean territories combined -- José Martí, Luz y Caballero, Arango y Parreño, Saco, Bachiller y Morales, Máximo Gomez, Céspedes, Maceo, Juan Gualberto Gomez, Plácido, statesmen, philosophers, humanists, general, politicians and poets. Twentieth century Cuba produced Fernando Ortiz, among the greatest scholar in the Caribbean. Unfortunately, for those who don't read Spanish, the majority of the material by and on these people is in Spanish. You can still be on the lookout for these names.



Arenas, Reinaldo, Before Night Falls: A Memoir. Viking, New York, 1993.

Aschkenas, Lea, Es Cuba: Life and Love on an Illegal Island. Avalon Publishing, 2006.

Babyma, EA & Morris, JA, Conflict and Change in Cuba. U of New Mexico Press, 1993.

Baker, Christopher, Moon Handbooks: Cuba. Moon Press, 2006.

Bardach, Ann Louise, Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana. Random House/Vintage Paper/ Penguin U.K./ Grijalbo, 2002, 2005

Bardach, Ann Louise, ed., Cuba: A Traveler's Literary Companion, Vol. 1. Whereabouts Press, 2002

Barnet, M, The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave: Esteban Montego. Pantheon, New York, 1968.

Bethell, Leslie, Cuba: A Short History. Cambridge, 1993.

Black, Alexander and Simon McBride, Living in Cuba. St Martin's Press, 1998.

Brandon, G, Santeria from Africa to the New World. Indiana Univ., Bloomington, 1993.

Cardoso, E & Helwege, A, Cuba after Communism. Massachussets, 1992.

Carley, Rachel, Cuba: 400 Years of Architectural History. Watsn-Gupt, 1997.

Castañeda, Jorge G., Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara. 1998. Of the many biographies of Che Guevara, this may be the best; thorough, unflinching, yet passionate -- makes Che understandable, even if much less admirable.

Choy, Armando, Gustavo Chui, and Moisés Sío Wong, Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution. Pathfinder Press, 2006.

Cluster, Dick & Rafael Hernandez, The History of Havana. Palgrave MacMillan, 2006.

Codrescu, Andrei , Ay, Cuba!: A Socio-Erotic Journey. St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Corbett, Ben, This Is Cuba: An Outlaw Culture Survives. Westview, 2002.


Dovalpage, Teresa, Posesas de la Habana. PurePlay Press, 2004. Fiction: in Spanish, focused on the lives of four generations of Cuban women who share the same estrogen-filled apartment, and their misadventures during a blackout night. It takes place during the "special period".

Falk, Pamela, "Eyes on Cuba: US Business & the Embargo," Foreign Affairs, Mar-Apr 1996

Finn, Maria. Cuba in Mind: An Anthology. Vintage Books, 2004.

Foehr, Stephen, Dancing with Fidel. London: Sanctuary Publishing, 2001. Exploration of the depth and breadth of Cuban music -- from Nueva Trova to jazz and reggae.

Garcia, Christina, Dreaming in Cuban. Knopf, New York, 1992. Garcia has written a number of acclaimed novel with Cuban themes, also including The Aguero Sisters and Monkey Hunting (about a Chinese immigrant to Cuba).

Goodnough, David, Jose Marti: Cuban Patriot and Poet. Enslow Pub., 1996.

Gott, Richard, Cuba: A New History. Yale, 2004

Greene, Graham, Our Man in Havana. Viking, New York, 1958.

Guerra y Sanchez, Ramiro, Sugar and Society in the Caribbean. New Haven, 1964. A classic of Cuban 'philosophy', and Caribbean historical analysis.


Halebsky, Sandor (ed.), Cuba in Transition: Crisis and Transformation. Westview Press, 1992.

Halperin, Maurice, Return to Havana: The Decline of Cuban Society under Castro. Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, 1994.

Helg, Aline, Our Rightful Share: The Afro-Cuba Struggle for Equity, 1886-1912. Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Helly, Denise, Cuba Commission Report: A Hidden History of the Chinese in Cuba: The Original English-Language Text of 1876. Baltimore, 1993.

Jatar-Hausmann, Ana Julia, The Cuban Way: Capitalism, Communism and Confrontation. Kumarian Press, 1999.

Jordan, Rosa and Derek Choukalos, Cycling Cuba. Lonely Planet, 2002.

Kennedy, Robert F., Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. NAL/Dutton, 1969.

Liss, Sheldon B, Fidel!: Castro's Political and Social Thought. Westview Pr, Colorado, 1994.

Lowinger, Rosa, "Old Havana Reborn", Preservation Magazine, Sept/Oct 1997.

Lowinger, Rosa and Ofelia Fox, Tropicana Nights: The Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub. Harcourt Books, 2005.

Marti, Jose, (poetry, philosophy, Cuban national hero). Search for Books on Jose Marti.

Mendoza, Tony, Cuba--Going Back. Univ of Texas Press, 1999.

Miller, Tom, Trading with the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Casto's Cuba. Atheneum Press, 199.
Recommended.

Oppenheimer, Andres, Castro's Final Hour. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1992.

Ortiz, Fernando (trans. by Harriet de Onis), Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar. Duke Univ, 1995. A 1940 classic.

Panet, JP, Latin America on Bicycle. Passport Press, 1993.

Paterson, Thomas G., Contesting Castro: The United States and the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution. Osford University Press, 1995.

Perez Jr., Louis A, Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution. New York, 1988. Perez is the author of a wide variety of books on Cuba.

Perez Jr., Louis A, On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture. HarperCollins, 2002. Sweeping social history.

Quirk, Robert E, Fidel Castro. Norton, New York, 1993.

Ramirez-Orbea, Oscar M, Cuba, I Remember You / Cuba, Te Recuerdo. Airleaf Publishing, 2006.

Rieff, David, The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1993.

Ripley, C. Peter, Conversations with Cuba. Univ. of Georgia, 1999.

Ryan, Alan, The Reader's Companion to Cuba. Harcourt Brace and Co., 1997.
Recommended.

Salas,Osvaldo and Ted Anderson, Fidel's Cuba: A Revolution in Pictures. Thunders Mouth's Press, 1998.

Segre, Roberto, Mario Coyula, and Joseph Scarpaci, Havana: Two Faces of the Antillean Metropolis. John Wiley & Sons, 1997.

Smith, Wayne, "Cuba's Long Reform," Foreign Affairs, Mar-Apr 1996.

Stable, Marifeli Perez, Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course, and Legacy. Oxford Univ., New York, 1993.

Stanley, David, Cuba (Lonely Planet Travel Series). Lonely Planet Pub., 2006.

Suchlicki, Jaime, Cuba: From Columbus to Castro and Beyond. Brassey's, 2002.

Szulc, Tad, Fidel: A Critical Portrait. HarperCollins, New York, 2004.

Thomas, Hugh, Cuba Or the Pursuit of Freedom. Da Capo Press, 1998.
Recommended.

Timerman, Jacobo, Cuba: A Journey. Knopf, New York, 1990.

US Dept of State, "Background Notes on Cuba," Bureau of Public Affairs

Walker, Dale L., The Boys of '98: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders. St. Martins Press, 1998.

Williams, Eric, From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean, 1492-1969. Vintage, New York 1970. Largely about the history of sugar and slavery in the Caribbean.

Williams, Stephen, Cuba: The Land, the History, the People, the Culture. Running Press, Philadelphia, 1994.