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Castro's Final Hour: The Secret Story Behind the Coming Downfall of Communist Cuba
Castro's Final Hour The Secret Story Behind the Coming Downfall of Communist Cuba
Author: Andres Oppenheimer
Reported from inside Cuba by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Andres Oppenheimer, Castro's Final Hour chronicles the dramatic events that have crippled the more-than-three-decades-old Marxist regime of Fidel Castro. From the execution of the country's most celebrated Army general in 1989 to the devastating effects of the loss of all Soviet aid, t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780671728731
ISBN-10: 0671728733
Publication Date: 7/1992
Pages: 474
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Publisher: Simon Schuster
Book Type: Hardcover
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This is a well-researched, objective and still sympathetic account of life in Cuba during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Amazing revelations of behind-the-scenes intrigue and personal portraits abound, and the reader gets to see, smell, feel and taste Cuban reality as lived by the participants. As a prophetic work, it obviously falls short--the Castro brothers and the Revolution, aged and tattered as they may be, are still with us.


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