{"product_id":"a-free-cuba-finally-9798199166096","title":"A Free Cuba, Finally.","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Whilly Bermudez\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Caribbean \u0026amp; West Indies - Cuba\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Free Cuba, Finally\u003c\/b\u003e is a powerful Cuban American account of Cuba's rise, collapse, suffering, exile, and long awaited rebirth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by \u003cb\u003eWhilly Bermudez\u003c\/b\u003e, this book traces Cuba's story from its earliest history through Spanish colonization, the independence movement, American influence, Batista, Fidel Castro, communism, the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Mariel, the Special Period, the balseros, the Eli�n Gonz�lez saga, Brothers to the Rescue, and the long nightmare of the Castro regime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this is not just a history book. It is also a personal and political reflection from a proud Cuban American who grew up attending freedom rallies with his father and inherited the pain, memory, and hope of exile.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines what communism did to Cuba: the hunger, blackouts, medicine shortages, surveillance, censorship, political prisoners, indoctrination, family separation, collapsed buildings, stolen property, and generations forced to survive instead of flourish. It also explores what Cubans and Cuban Americans gave the world through business, music, sports, politics, medicine, literature, food, culture, and the transformation of Miami.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003cb\u003eJos� Mart�\u003c\/b\u003e to \u003cb\u003eFidel Castro\u003c\/b\u003e, from \u003cb\u003eCelia Cruz\u003c\/b\u003e to \u003cb\u003eMarco Rubio\u003c\/b\u003e, from Old Havana's beauty to its crumbling buildings, from exile grief to the dream of reconstruction, \u003cb\u003eA Free Cuba, Finally\u003c\/b\u003e is both a remembrance and a call for the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt its heart, this book makes one argument clearly: \u003cb\u003ethe Cuban people were never the failure. The system was.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCuba was beautiful before the dictatorship. Cuba remained beautiful beneath it. And one day soon, Cuba can be beautiful again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Free Cuba, Finally\u003c\/b\u003e is for Cubans who remember, Cubans who were never taught, Cuban Americans who inherited the story, and anyone who wants to understand why Cuba's freedom still matters and why they \u003cb\u003eWILL BE FREE AGAIN.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47889786273943,"sku":"9798199166096","price":2099.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798199166096.webp?v=1781177739","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-free-cuba-finally-9798199166096","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}