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Looking for History
Dispatches from Latin America
by Alma Guillermoprieto
Ebook, 320 Pages, Published 2007 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-42667-3, ISBN: 0-307-42667-X

"... /Ia/Jeru (rafter) crisis, and the final submission of socialist goals to the pragmatic requirements of getting a full-throttle tourist economy under way. A great many Cubans escaped from the island at that time or have negotiated their departure in the years since, and a number of them are now writing interesting books. Ale//1uri¢1.r de /m 50/z/rlc//.1 cu/;¢m0." by “Benigno" (Dariel Alarcon Ramirez), is by far the most valuable ..."






Dancing with Cuba
A Memoir of the Revolution
by Alma Guillermoprieto
Ebook, 304 Pages, Published 2007 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-42544-7, ISBN: 0-307-42544-4

"To this day, Elaine's \vork very much resembles her, it seems to me; it remains so natural that one can't help being charmed, and it is filled with startling moments of evocative pO\\'£'I'. One evening in Merce's dressing room another of my friends, Graciela Figueroa, mentioned that she had started rehearsing with an odd woman who had a funny name—Twyla Tharp— and she was seriously considering reaching the conclusion that the woman ..."