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Author Fernández, Alfredo Antonio, 1945-

Title Adrift : the Cuban raft people / by Alfredo Fernández ; translated from the Spanish by Susan Giersbach Rascón
Published Houston, TX : Arte Pub́lico Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 263 pages)
Contents I. The Comandante, the Rafts, and International Diplomacy -- II. An Old Tugboat Sinks -- III. The Malecon in Flames -- IV. On the High Seas -- V. The Craziest Month Ever -- VI. The Sea of Lost Rafts -- VII. Guantanamera -- VIII. Panamena, Panamena -- IX. Undertow -- X. Cessna 337 Is Not Responding -- XI. The Golden Child
Summary Fernandez surveys the turbulence produced by the collapse of the USSR and concludes that the greatest collateral damage has been inflicted not on the regime of Fidel Castro, but rather upon the men, women and children seeking to flee his dictatorship
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Subject Cubans -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Refugees -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Refugees -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Hispanic American Studies.
Cubans
Emigration and immigration
International relations
Refugees
Diplomatic relations
Außenpolitik
Flüchtling
Einwanderer
SUBJECT United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
Cuba -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
United States -- Relations -- Cuba
Cuba -- Relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001742
Subject Cuba
United States
USA
Kuba.
Kubaner.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 00042006
ISBN 9781611920550
1611920558
9781611926033
1611926033
Other Titles A la deriva. English