{"product_id":"the-crimes-of-the-castro-family-9798199078856","title":"The Crimes of the Castro Family","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): J. Star Blaine\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\u003eThey called it a revolution. The evidence says it was a crime family.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1958, Cuba was among the wealthiest, most literate nations in Latin America. Then a young lawyer came down from the Sierra Maestra, and over the next sixty-seven years his family turned the Pearl of the Antilles into the longest-running organized crime operation in the Western Hemisphere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Crimes of the Castro Family\u003c\/i\u003e is the case against them, written to be read in a single evening. Drawing on the public record, defector testimony, U.S. court filings, and the meticulous victim count of the Cuba Archive, it tells the story Havana spent two generations trying to bury: not socialism's noble experiment, but a dynasty that murdered, stole, trafficked, and sold its own people to keep power. This is not a government. It is a family firm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside this book: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe founding crimes: \u003c\/b\u003e the firing-squad walls of La Caba�a, the great theft of 1959 to 1963, and the waves of exile that built Miami.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe narco-state: \u003c\/b\u003e how Havana partnered with the Medell�n cartel for cocaine cash, and why a decorated general faced his own firing squad in 1989.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCubazuela: \u003c\/b\u003e the Cuban capture of Venezuela, the Cartel of the Suns, and the river of narco-dollars that kept the regime alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe modern rackets: \u003c\/b\u003e doctors sold into forced labor, remittances skimmed, and intelligence rented to Iran, Russia, and North Korea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe cost in blood: \u003c\/b\u003e the tugboat 13 de Marzo, the Brothers to the Rescue shootdown, the killing of Oswaldo Pay�, and the prisoners of July 11.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe reckoning: \u003c\/b\u003e the 2026 federal indictment of Ra�l Castro for the murder of Americans, and the case for what a free Cuba could become.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the firing squads of 1959 to a federal courtroom in Miami, this is the dynasty that captured a nation, and the reckoning that finally caught up with it. It closes not in despair, but with the most hopeful question a Cuban can ask: what comes after the Castros?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of true crime, Cold War history, and Latin American politics. For every family that left, and every one still waiting to go home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Castros are charged at last. Here is the case against them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47968746176663,"sku":"9798199078856","price":1102.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798199078856.webp?v=1782919253","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-crimes-of-the-castro-family-9798199078856","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}