Download or read book Cuba s Raft Exodus of 1994 written by Carmelo Mesa-Lago and published by Coral Gables, Fla. : North-South Center, University of Miami. This book was released on 1995 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adrift written by Alfredo Antonio Fernàndez and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2000-09-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989, the world watched as the Berlin Wall tumbled down, and then looked on as the entire Iron Curtain shook itself to pieces, freeing Eastern Europe after decades of Soviet domination. But how many observers noticed as the swells and shockwaves from those events slowly crossed the Atlantic Ocean to roil the waters of the Caribbean and break upon the shores of Cuba? In Adrift: The Cuban Raft People , Alfredo Fernández surveys the turbulence produced an entire hemisphere away by the collapse of the USSR, and concludes that, ironically, 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. For although U.S. immigration policy changed soon after, Castros grip on the Cuban people has remained unyielding, even as extraordinary economic crises have wracked the island. As a result, countless refugees seeking freedom have disappeared without a trace into the churning waters of the Florida Straits. And many of those rescued in international waters by U.S. naval vessels have simply been turned back over to the Cuban authorities. Focusing especially on the years 1994 through 1996, by which time the magnitude of the post-Soviet changes in Cuba had become fully apparent, Fernández presents a compelling international gallery of survivors, victims, traitors, rogues, and heroes. From the infamous destruction of two unarmed private planes (sponsored by the humanitarian group Brothers to the Rescue) by Cuban MIGs in February 1996, to an afterward on the media-driven frenzy over five-year-old Elián González, found alone in an inner-tube two miles off Fort Lauderdale in November 1999, this is the powerful, true saga of two nations in conflict and the hapless people adrift between their shores. Fernándezs compelling account captures the stories of the Cuban boat people, which are particularly relevant in light of the recent Elián González case. The work transcends purely ethnic interest in addressing a political topic of broad national impact.
Download or read book Cuban Raft Voyage written by Gordon England and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-05 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the summer of 1994, thousands of Cubans were allowed to leave their island on makeshift boats and rafts in hopes of migrating to the United States. These rafters, known as balseros, endured harrowing journeys across the Straits of Florida to reach freedom from tyranny. This story follows four Cubans who embark upon a raft voyage of enduring valor in a quest for freedom as they fight to survive the ocean's rugged fury, swarms of sharks, and deadly drug runners.
Download or read book Mass Migration Nonviolent Social Action and the Cuban Raft Exodus 1959 1994 written by Holly Ackerman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cuba s Raft Exodus of 1994 written by Carmelo Mesa-Lago and published by Coral Gables, Fla. : North-South Center, University of Miami. This book was released on 1995 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cuban Raft Voyage written by Gordon England (Author) and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the summer of 1994, thousands of Cubans were allowed to leave their island on makeshift boats and rafts in hopes of migrating to the United States. These rafters, known as balseros, endured harrowing journeys across the straits of Florida to reach freedom from tyranny. This story follows the plight of four Cubans who steal a statue of Our Lady of Charity, affectionately known as Cachita, from a Catholic Basilica in hopes that she will safely transport them away from Castro's brutal Communist regime to a new life of freedom in Miami. The ensuing raft voyage turns into a nightmare as they fight to survive the ocean's rugged fury, swarms of sharks, and deadly drug runners. This electrifying story of human tragedy shows the suffering endured by refugees everywhere."--Back cover.
Download or read book The Cuban Exodus Of 1994 written by Antonio Gordon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1994 Cuban boat crisis involved more than 50,000 Cubans who threw themselves into an uncertain future; refugees laid on rafts and improvised sea vessels in an attempt to escape from their homeland. One thought pressed their minds as they ventured away from the life they knew so well: that they could die trying to reach the United States. However, they courageously took the risk after deciding that they could no longer live in Castro's Cuba -- one burdened by discrimination, oppression, abuse, poverty, and subjection. The United States, in a gesture of humanity, rescued some 32,000 refugees from the Straits of Florida and the Caribbean Sea -- sadly, more than 15,000 may have died before being rescued. They were then sent to the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base where many endured more than a year of difficult physical and emotional conditions before their legal entry into the United States. During that year and a half, many improbable, noble, ugly, and unpredictable things happened in the refugee camps of the Cuban boat people. Dr. Antonio Gordon, a Cuban-American physician and researcher of Cuban health issues, has been able to captured the story of this crisis. He has traveled several times to Guantanamo Bay, voluntarily providing medical services to the rafters with the Miami Medical Team and collecting camp newspapers and personal accounts. In 2015, Dr. Gordon published the Spanish version of this volume; the work provides a unique version of this important time in our history, anchored by the rafter's testimonies and periodicals published in the refugee camps from Guantanamo and the Cayman Islands. Twenty years later, testimonies of thousands of Cuban rafters, American Armed Forces, and civilian personnel who came together in this crossroads of history are enraptured by this work. It is bound to touch the deepest fibers of all involved, Americans and Cubans alike, and will be a must for historians, students, and politicians interested in relations between Cuba and the United States."
Download or read book Mass Migration Nonviolent Action and the Cuban Raft Exodus 1959 1994 written by Holly Ackerman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Escape to Miami written by Elizabeth Campisi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba is well-known for its infamous prison camp, few people are aware of its prior use as an immigrant detention center for Haitian and Cuban refugees. Beginning in August 1994, the United States government declared that thousands of Cubans who had launched themselves into the Florida Straits on rickety rafts were "illegal refugees" and sent them to join over fifteen thousand Haitians already being held on Guantánamo after fleeing a violent coup in Haiti. Escape to Miami recounts the gripping stories of the rafters who were detained in Guantánamo during the 1994-1996 Cuban Rafter Crisis. After working in the camps for a year as an employee of the U.S. Justice Department, Elizabeth Campisi conducted life history interviews with twelve of the rafters, chronicling their departures from Cuba, their rafting trips, life on the base, and their initial experiences in Cuban Miami. Through these remarkable narratives, the book details the ways in which the rafters used creative expression, such as performance and artwork, to cope with the traumas they experienced in the camp. Campisi explores these coping mechanisms, showing that, when people work through individually-traumatic experiences as a group, the new meanings they create during that process can come together to change existing cultures or create new ones. Vivid and engaging, Escape to Miami gives voice to the untold stories of Guantánamo. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in policy, Latin American history, and human rights.
Download or read book Cuban Rafter 1994 written by Luis F Durán and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuban Rafter 1994 is the story of my escape from the island by raft in August 1994, after many unsuccessful attempts, and even being jailed for it. Cuba, in the midst of severe lack of rights and freedoms, as well as all kinds of food and material goods, was on the verge of a social outbreak. After the so-called Maleconazo riots in the streets of Havana, the government opened the country's borders to allow emigration by our own means, called the "Rafters' Crisis". Desperate, thousands of families undertook this odyssey - full of risks, in precarious boats and saturated with unknown dangers - to Miami.This is the stark tale of a 53-week expedition to freedom. After being picked up by the American Coast Guard, following three days of navigation, we were interned in the Naval Bases of Guantanamo and the Panama Canal for many months, being victims of an unjust and endless prison, lacking immigration status and stripped of all rights, surrounded by cruel uncertainty, without family contacts or legal representation.Life in those camps, a scenario in which more than 34,000 beings suffered an abominable caging, the five months in Panama, where uncertainty and frustration caused the most brutal and violent protests against the innocent soldiers who were guarding us. I also describe the interactions of refugees and the military in schools, hospitals, churches and all the infrastructure created to try to make our prison more bearable, barely floating in an ocean of political maneuvers by both governments and the Cuban exile, trying to free us.A first-hand account of the cruelty of the Cuban dictatorship, of the vile homage paid by Bill Clinton to the blackmail of our former infamous tyrant, during the most overwhelming resurrection journey from hell. Undoubtedly, an unnecessary punishment I would be willing to face a thousand times, to conquer the tangible freedoms of a vibrant and full democracy like the one I enjoy today with my family.
Download or read book That Infernal Little Cuban Republic written by Lars Schoultz and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lars Schoultz offers a comprehensive chronicle of U.S. policy toward the Cuban Revolution. Using a rich array of documents and firsthand interviews with U.S. and Cuban officials, he tells the story of the attempts and failures of ten U.S. administrations to end the Cuban Revolution. He concludes that despite the overwhelming advantage in size and power that the United States enjoys over its neighbor, the Cubans' historical insistence on their right to self-determination has been a constant thorn in the side of American administrations, influenced both U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy on a much larger stage, and resulted in a freeze in diplomatic relations of unprecedented longevity.
Download or read book Refugee written by Alan Gratz and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling novel from Alan Gratz tells the timely--and timeless--story of three different kids seeking refuge. A New York Times bestseller! JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world... ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America... MAHMOUD is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe... All three kids go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers -- from drownings to bombings to betrayals. But there is always the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, shocking connections will tie their stories together in the end. As powerful and poignant as it is action-packed and page-turning, this highly acclaimed novel has been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than four years and continues to change readers' lives with its meaningful takes on survival, courage, and the quest for home.
Download or read book Cuba written by Rex A. Hudson and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2002 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes and analyzes the economic, national security, political, and social systems and institutions of Cuba."--Amazon.com viewed Jan. 4, 2021.
Download or read book Havana Miami written by Jesús Arboleya and published by Ocean Press (AU). This book was released on 1996 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1994, the Caribbean Sea became the scene of a mass exodus of Cubans as they launched their homemade rafts in the direction of the United States. What were the origins of this "rafters crisis"? Why did the U.S. government decide that those Cubans would not be automatically admitted as they had been previously, and instead intern them at the Guantanamo Naval Base? How was this wave of Cuban migration different from those that preceded it? How has this migration - and the Cuban emigre community - been used by Washington against Cuba since the 1959 revolution? And why has this policy become such an important U.S. domestic issue? Jesus Arboleya, an authority on Cuban migration, presents a detailed review of the different waves of Cuban migration to the United States. Arboleya considers how a lessening of the intransigence on both sides of the Florida Straits has led to the migration accords between Washington and Havana. He asks whether these accords reflect a possible new direction in the tumultuous relationship between the neighboring nations.
Download or read book A Strategic Flip flop in the Caribbean Lift the Embargo on Cub written by and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cuban Revelations written by Marc Frank and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cuban Revelations, Marc Frank offers a first-hand account of daily life in Cuba at the turn of the twenty-first century, the start of a new and dramatic epoch for islanders and the Cuban diaspora. A U.S.-born journalist who has called Havana home for almost a quarter century, Frank observed in person the best days of the revolution, the fall of the Soviet Bloc, the great depression of the 1990s, the stepping aside of Fidel Castro, and the reforms now being devised by his brother. Examining the effects of U.S. policy toward Cuba, Frank analyzes why Cuba has entered an extraordinary, irreversible period of change and considers what the island's future holds. The enormous social engineering project taking place today under Raúl's leadership is fraught with many dangers, and Cuban Revelations follows the new leader's efforts to overcome bureaucratic resistance and the fears of a populace that stand in his way. In addition, Frank offers a colorful chronicle of his travels across the island's many and varied provinces, sharing candid interviews with people from all walks of life. He takes the reader outside the capital to reveal how ordinary Cubans live and what they are thinking and feeling as fifty-year-old social and economic taboos are broken. He shares his honest and unbiased observations on extraordinary positive developments in social matters, like healthcare and education, as well as on the inefficiencies in the Cuban economy.
Download or read book International Migration in Cuba written by Margarita Cervantes-Rodríguez and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the arrival of the Spanish conquerors at the beginning of the colonial period, Cuba has been hugely influenced by international migration. Between 1791 and 1810, for instance, many French people migrated to Cuba in the wake of the purchase of Louisiana by the United States and turmoil in Saint-Domingue. Between 1847 and 1874, Cuba was the main recipient of Chinese indentured laborers in Latin America. During the nineteenth century as a whole, more Spanish people migrated to Cuba than anywhere else in the Americas, and hundreds of thousands of slaves were taken to the island. The first decades of the twentieth century saw large numbers of immigrants and temporary workers from various societies arrive in Cuba. And since the revolution of 1959, a continuous outflow of Cubans toward many countries has taken place—with lasting consequences. In this book, the most comprehensive study of international migration in Cuba ever undertaken, Margarita Cervantes-Rodríguez aims to elucidate the forces that have shaped international migration and the involvement of the migrants in transnational social fields since the beginning of the colonial period. Drawing on Fernand Braudel’s concept of longue durée, transnational studies, perspectives on power, and other theoretical frameworks, the author places her analysis in a much wider historical and theoretical perspective than has previously been applied to the study of international migration in Cuba, making this a work of substantial interest to social scientists as well as historians.
