Diary of the Cuban Revolution
Author: Carlos Franqui
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13:
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Diary of a Survivor
Author: Ana Rodriguez
Publisher: St Martins Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780312130503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe incredible story of a young medical student arrested in Cuba in 1962 documents the life of Ana Rodriguez and her steadfast refusal to give in to political intimidation, re-education, or rehabilitation during nineteen years as a political prisoner.
Diary of a Combatant
Author: Che Guevara
Publisher: Ocean Press
Published: 2013-10-14
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 0987077945
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChe Guevara's original, unpublished diaries from the guerrilla war in Cuba's Sierra Maestra.
The African Dream
Author: Che Guevara
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1860468470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese African diaries--written when Che Guevara tried to help the people of the Congo throw off the yoke of colonial imperialism--afford a very personal insight into the thoughts and emotions of one of the 20th century's greatest revolutionary martyrs. of photos.
Contesting Castro
Author: Thomas G. Paterson
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780195101201
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes Castro's insurrection from a 1955 fund raising trip to the United States to the Cuban Revolution.
Latin America Diaries
Author: Ernesto Che Guevara
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2023-12-26
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1644211017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe sequel to The Motorcycle Diaries, this book is Ernesto Che Guevera's journal documenting the young Argentine's second trip through Latin America, revealing the emergence of a committed revolutionary. These letters, poetry, and journalism document young Ernesto Guevara's second Latin American journey following his graduation from medical school in 1953. Together, these writings reveal how the young Argentine is transformed into a militant revolutionary. After traveling through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Central America, Ernesto witnesses the 1954 US-inspired coup in Guatemala, which has a profound effect on his political awareness. He flees to Mexico where he encounters Fidel Castro, marking the beginning of a political partnership that profoundly changes the world and Che himself. Includes a foreword by Alberto Granado, Che's companion on his first adventures in Latin America on a vintage Norton motorcycle, and features poems written by young Ernesto inspired by his experiences along with facsimiles of pages from his diary.
Celia Sánchez Manduley
Author: Tiffany A. Sippial
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2019-10-29
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1469654083
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCelia Sanchez Manduley (1920–1980) is famous for her role in the Cuban revolution. Clad in her military fatigues, this "first female guerrilla of the Sierra Maestra" is seen in many photographs alongside Fidel Castro. Sanchez joined the movement in her early thirties, initially as an arms runner and later as a combatant. She was one of Castro's closest confidants, perhaps lover, and went on to serve as a high-ranking government official and international ambassador. Since her death, Sanchez has been revered as a national icon, cultivated and guarded by the Cuban government. With almost unprecedented access to Sanchez's papers, including a personal diary, and firsthand interviews with family members, Tiffany A. Sippial presents the first critical study of a notoriously private and self-abnegating woman who yet exists as an enduring symbol of revolutionary ideals. Sippial reveals the scope and depth of Sanchez's power and influence within the Cuban revolution, as well as her struggles with violence, her political development, and the sacrifices required by her status as a leader and "New Woman." Using the tools of feminist biography, cultural history, and the politics of memory, Sippial reveals how Sanchez strategically crafted her own legacy within a history still dominated by bearded men in fatigues.
Cuba Diaries
Author: Isadora Tattlin
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2002-05-17
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1565127218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIsadora Tattlin is the American wife of a European energy consultant posted to Havana in the 1990s. Wisely, the witty Mrs. Tattlin began a diary the day her husband informed her of their new assignment. One of the first entries is her shopping list of things to take, including six gallons of shampoo. For although the Tattlins were provided with a wonderful, big house in Havana, complete with a staff of seven, there wasn't much else money could buy in a country whose shelves are nearly bare. The record of her daily life in Cuba raising her two small children, entertaining her husband's clients (among them Fidel Castro and his ministers and minions), and contending with chronic shortages of, well . . . everything (on the street, tourists are hounded not for money but for soap), is literally stunning. Adventurous and intuitive, Tattlin squeezed every drop of juice--both tasty and repellent--from her experience. She traveled wherever she could (it's not easy--there are few road signs or appealing places to stay or eat). She befriended artists, attended concerts and plays. She gave dozens of parties, attended dozens more. Cuba Diaries--vividly explicit, empathetic, often hilarious--takes the reader deep inside this island country only ninety miles from the U.S., where the average doctor's salary is eleven dollars a month. The reader comes away appalled by the deprivation and drawn by the romance of a weirdly nostalgic Cuba frozen in the 1950s.
Che: Selected Works of Ernesto Guevara
Author: Che Guevara
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13:
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Havana Real
Author: Yoani Sanchez
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2011-04-26
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1935554913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShe's been kidnapped and beaten, lives under surveillance, and can only get online—in disguise—at tourist hotspots. She's a blogger, she's a Cuban, and she's a worldwide sensation. Yoani Sánchez is an unusual dissident: no street protests, no attacks on big politicos, no calls for revolution. Rather, she produces a simple diary about what it means to live under the Castro regime: the chronic hunger and the difficulty of shopping; the art of repairing ancient appliances; and the struggles of living under a propaganda machine that pushes deep into public and private life. For these simple acts of truth-telling her life is one of constant threat. But she continues on, refusing to be silenced—a living response to all who have ceased to believe in a future for Cuba.
