Cuba at Sea - Softcover

Ridenour, Ron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0906378028 ISBN 13: 9780906378021

Publisher: Resistance Books, 2008

Synopsis

A unique view of the revolution: from the ocean The only foreign writer to portray things Cuban as a volunteer merchant marine, Ron Ridenour sailed six months on five Cuban ships around the island nation delivering petroleum, and to and from Europe with container goods, to tell Cuban sailors' views of their society and the world. Follow the crew through a gale, catching a giant shark, struggling with a life boat gone amuck, night life ashore... 108 pages with photos.

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About the Author

Ron Ridenour was born in the US Military Empire, 1939. After four years in the Air Force, he rejected the American Dream, in 1961, and has since acted as an anti-war, anti-racist and solidarity radical activist (Long Hot Summer, 1964, in Mississippi; Wounded Knee AIM 1973; anti-Vietnam war coordinator in Los Angeles). He has lived in many countries and worked as a journalist-editor-author-translator for five decades, including for Cuba's Editorial José Martí and Prensa Latina (1988-96). He has lived in Denmark for three decades agitating against its vassal state mentality and warmongering.

Edition details

• Publisher: Resistance Books
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0906378028
• ISBN 13: 9780906378021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112