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Unvanquished: Cuba's Resistance to Fidel Castro
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by Enrique Encinosa
Sales Rank: 346614
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List Price: $26.00
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on 6-19-2008.
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 229 pages
Published by: Pureplay Press June 1, 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0971436665
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0971436664
Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.5 x 1.2 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Agustín Tamargo, El Nuevo Herald, May 16, 2004
" unique: the irrefutable testimony of how hard the Cuban people have fought to banish the ill-starred despotism "
Adolfo Rivero, co-founder of Cuba's human rights movement, from a statement in May 2004
"This is a good, solid and timely book."
Reader Reviews
This book will likely be dismissed by the Castrophiles on the academic left who paint the Cuban exile community as a collection of ignorant fascists. Those who approach the text with moral sobriety and decency, however, will be moved by Mr. Encinosa's tribute to the Cuban martyrs who were either murdered, or suffered in Castro's gulags, while having been ignored by the world press. The romantic delusion that Cuba represents a good faith attempt to create a socialist society while defending itself against evil capitalists has been refuted over and over again by the brutality and mendacity of the system. Like Che Guevara's false archetype of the saintly revolutionary, the revolution itself was a pathetic lie and Cuba eventually became the playground for Castro's egocentric fantasies. I should know. During the revolution my father fought against Batista in the Escambray front and my maternal grandparents ran one of the largest safe houses on the island, which offered refuge to many who later became ranking members of the regime. Fortunately, my family recognized the nature of the beast early on and we fled paradise in 1965. Among the many stories that Mr. Encinosa recounts, one that Americans should become familiar with is the imprisonment of Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, an Afro-Cuban physician who is currently wasting away in a Cuban prison. While the left is busy denouncing the detention of Islamic radicals at Guantanamo, Dr. Biscet, a Christian pro-life activist and advocate of Dr. Martin Luther King's teachings of nonviolent resistence, is serving a 25 year sentence. He previously served a three year prison sentence for holding a Cuban flag upside down during a press conference. After his conviction on April 7, 2003, Dr. Biscet was placed in solitary confinement in a tiny cell where he was denied sunlight for the first year of his imprisonment. He has been forced to live on handouts from other prisoners because the authorities refused to feed him, he lost several teeth and exists on the verge of starvation. Dr. Biscet's plight is a living synopsis of Castro's experiment in Carribean Stalinism and the motivation for the resistance movements described in the book.
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