Cuba On My Mind: Journeys to a Severed Nation
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ISBN: 1859847900 / Publisher: Verso, December 2000
Examines the dual Cuban capitals of Havana and Miami to offer insight on the two Cubas.
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The struggle over Elian Gonzalez is only the most publicized chapter in the ongoing rift between the two Cuban capitals of Havana and Miami. In this account of the forty-one-year-old divide between Cuba and its exile population in the United States, Roman de la Campa questions both sides of a family feud that is acutely reflective of his own experience. Cuban born, and commuting between the arch enemies in spite of their respective roadblocks, he tells the story of his coming of age in the Cuban diaspora, with its faded sympathies for revolution, and his continuing distaste for official Miami, the exile capital.
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