Cuba in Revolution: Escape from a Lost Paradise - Hardcover

Miguel A. Faria Jr.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0964107732 ISBN 13: 9780964107731

Publisher: Hacienda Pub Inc, 2002

Synopsis

"...To read Cuba in Revolution--Escape From a Lost Paradise is to relive the author's childhood and personal experiences in his native country. With a vibrant and clear prose, Dr. Miguel Faria gives us a rare glimpse inside a historic political process that has been distorted by many interested parties who have applauded the Cuban Revolution and promoted its success and, who naively, consider it worthy of imitation..."-- Roberto A. Solera, LaNuevaCuba.com, columnist and a former editor at El Nuevo Herald, and author of Cuba: Viaje al Pasado.

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Praise For Cuba in Revolution--Escape From a Lost Paradise

"Cuba in Revolution--Escape From a Lost Paradise is the key to understanding Cuba: From the rise of Castro to the Cuba we hope to see after Castro's fall...Get this book." --Christopher Ruddy, President and CEO, NewsMax Media, Inc.

"Dr. Miguel Faria isn't waiting to dance on Fidel Castro's grave. In Cuba in Revolution--Escape From a Lost Paradise, he explodes the myths skillfully created by Havana's propaganda machine over the last half-century...Carefully documented, expertly researched, Dr. Faria offers up the definitive Cuban revolution epitaph."--Joseph Farah, CEO, WorldNetDaily.com

"America's recent political history is marked by the gradual abandonment of freedom for the promise of government-provided security. Dr. Miguel Faria knows better than most the danger that lies down that path. I pray that enough people read his book...and learn...before it is too late!" --Neal Boortz, Nationally-Syndicated Radio Talk Show Host

"The term 'must reading' is usually a cliché, but not in this case. Dr. Miguel Faria's book is a seminal, important contribution to a real understanding of the complex Cuba problem, beyond the banner headlines, government propaganda and political dialectics..." --Enrique Encinosa, Author, Cuba En Guerra: Historia de la Oposición Anti-Castrista 1959-1993

"Americans need to know more about how the Castro problem started and has remained a festering sore so close to our shore. Dr. Miguel Faria gives us a rare eyewitness look at the personal costs of Castro's heinous takeover of Cuba." --Phyllis Schlafly, Eagle Forum

"Dr. Miguel Faria has shown two things that strike me as essential for Americans to understand. One, gun registration was the tool for Castro to disarm the people of Cuba prior to committing genocide. Two, be careful lest we get what we say we want. The people of Cuba wanted to get rid of the dictator Batista. They did, and then got Castro. I hope that Americans will be more careful about who they support for making needed changes in our government."--Larry Pratt, Executive Director, Gun Owners of America

"If your understanding of Cuba comes from watching Elián on the Today show, you'll want to read Dr. Miguel Faria's book as soon as possible...a powerful account of life inside the hemisphere's last authoritarian state!" --Tucker Carlson, The Weekly Standard, co-host of CNN's The Spin Room

"A shocking, firsthand look into the soul of Cuba's infamous dictator, Fidel Castro, what influenced him, and how he and his brother Raul's 26th of July movement, with its egalitarian ideals, took control of an embattled island  and its unsuspecting people...Since that 1953 'sacred date of communist Cuba,' Dr. Miguel Faria charts in black-and-white Castro's bloody reign of terror, during which half-a-million political prisoners were forced into his inhumane jails--untold thousands never came out." --John McCaslin, Syndicated Columnist, The Washington Times, Chicago Tribune Media Services

"Dr. Miguel Faria's new book is a powerful beacon, illuminating topics as varied as Cuban health care before Castro and the failure of gun control in the United States. He makes the case for freedom with the passion and eloquence of one who knows what life is like without it. Cuba in Revolution--Escape From a Lost Paradise is an inspiring and exhilarating read." --Jeff Jacoby, The Boston Globe

"An impassioned plea for freedom...!" --Brigid McMenamin, Forbes Magazine

"Un texto muy útil, claro y revelador." ("A useful, clear, and revealing text.") --Carlos Alberto Montaner, Author, Journalist, and most widely read Columnist in the Spanish language

From the Inside Flap

Cuba in Revolution--Escape From a Lost Paradise by Miguel A. Faria, Jr., M.D. is set to cause shock waves in the political landscape and US-Cuba relations! Dr. Faria uses the common thread of his escape from Cuba to tell the real story behind Castro's workers' paradise.

The information contained in this book about the Revolutionary Directorate (RD), the 13th of March movement--the other group of revolutionaries who fought tenaciously against dictator Fulgencio Batista in the 1950s and to which his parents belonged--is historic, exciting, and explosive. The RD (the Directorio) was the real viable alternative to the Batista government, as well as to communism and the autocracy of Fidel Castro. Faria explains how that window of opportunity, support for genuine anticommunist rebels, was closed when the American media and the U.S. government supported Castro's group, the 26th of July movement, rather than the openly anticommunist RD, the 13th of March movement, that stood for free market reforms and the elimination of government corruption.

Faria's family involvement in the Revolution as underground members of the RD and his personal adventures during the escape through several Caribbean islands brings together an unforgettable tale of courage and survival.

With the story of escape from communist Cuba with his father and relating it to the revolutionary history of Cuba, Faria provides a compelling setting for exposing the miserly conditions in Cuba today and the reality of living under the unbearably oppressive, totalitarian island regime.

Faria vividly relates the atrocities committed by the communist regime of Fidel Castro, like the little known anticommunist wars of the campesinos alzados (peasant revolts) in the Escambray Mountains of his native Las Villas province in the 1960s. He talks about the brutality of the peasant democide, the relocation camps, the arrests, the executions by firing squad, and the unreported acts of courage. In succeeding chapters, Faria reveals the reality behind the mythic Cuban education and health care, the purportedly great achievements of the Revolution in the "golden years" of the 1970s and 1980s.

This book is more than a recollection of the author's escape and a recounting of Cuban revolutionary history. Faria brings us up-to-date on US-Cuba relations, the reasons for continuing the US embargo, the implications of the Helms-Burton law, and the ramifications of the Elián González saga. Thus, Cuba in Revolution--Escape From a Lost Paradise covers other troubling topics, which Faria, with his academic credentials and singular experience, is able to weave together to present as an intriguing, suspenseful, and epic narrative.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hacienda Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0964107732
• ISBN 13: 9780964107731
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 452