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Zusatztext 'Levine's detailed and extensive reporting should stand as a valuable contribution to 20th century history.' - Miami Today 'Bernardo Benes is an unlikely but true American hero...this book is a masterpiece of history and reporting which fleshes out one of the great human dramas of our time. Fascinating!' - Edna Buchanan! Pulitzer Prize Winner for General Reporting Informationen zum Autor ROBERT M. LEVINE is Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Miami and the author of over a dozen books on Latin America and Cuba including Tropical Diaspora and the forthcoming Cambridge Concise History of Cuba . Klappentext Secret Missions to Cuba reveals new insights into Fidel Castro's personality, details secret missions to Cuba under the Carter and Reagan administrations to negotiate the restoration of US-Cuban relations and provides an in-depth look at Miami's exile community since 1959. This groundbreaking story is told through Bernardo Benes - a lawyer who joined the refugee exodus from Castro's Cuba in 1960. Benes quickly became one of the leading voices advocating the integration of Cubans into the city's Anglo, old-boy power structure. In 1978, Cuban Intelligence recruited him as an emissary between the Carter administration and Cuba. He did the same for the CIA under Reagan in the early 1980s. In all, Benes made seventy-five secret trips to meet with high-ranking Cuban officials, spending about 150 hours face-to-face with Fidel Castro. The 1978 dialogue resulted in the release of 3,600 Cuban political prisoners and the right for Cuban exiles to visit family members on the island. Rather than being received as a hero on his return to Miami, however, Benes was branded a traitor by the Miami Cuban media for having dealt personally with Castro. His career ruined, he became a pariah in the community. Secret Missions to Cuba also examines the motives of those who vilified Benes and explores why so many Cubans in Miami have permitted themselves to be silenced - much in the same ways, Levine claims, as Cubans under Castro. But what differentiates Levine's book from any other is that he is literally breaking new ground by documenting these top-secret missions to Cuba. Furthermore, he has the corroboration of key players like Ambler Moss, who was the Ambassador to Panama under Carter; Bob Pastor, who was Carter's Latin American advisor on the National Security Council, and General Vernon A. Walters, the former Deputy Director of the CIA. The twenty-five photos in the book, some which depict Bernardo Benes with Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy and, of course, Fidel Castro, emphasize the importance of Benes' story internationally. Zusammenfassung Secret Missions to Cuba reveals new insights into Fidel Castro's personality, details secret missions to Cuba under the Carter and Reagan administrations to negotiate the restoration of US-Cuban relations and provides an in-depth look at Miami's exile community since 1959. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface, Acknowledgments, and a Statement on Corroboration List of Photographs and sources Beginnings Cuban Miami Mission to Havana: The Carter Years Mission to Havana: The Reagan Years Revolutionary Justice Only in Miami Bibliographic Notes...
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Preface, Acknowledgments, and a Statement on Corroboration List of Photographs and sources Beginnings Cuban Miami Mission to Havana: The Carter Years Mission to Havana: The Reagan Years Revolutionary Justice Only in Miami Bibliographic Notes
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'Levine's detailed and extensive reporting should stand as a valuable contribution to 20th century history.' - Miami Today
'Bernardo Benes is an unlikely but true American hero...this book is a masterpiece of history and reporting which fleshes out one of the great human dramas of our time. Fascinating!' - Edna Buchanan, Pulitzer Prize Winner for General Reporting
