J.C. Perez

J.C. Perez is a Cuban American writer, born in Caibarien Cuba in 1955. His great grandfather was a Cuban sugar Baron, a colon, who owned a immense sugar plantation in the middle of the Island. Perez's parents fled Caibarien for Havana when Che Guevara's troops hit Santa Clara. A product of the Peter Pan flights organized by the Catholic Church to get children out of the revolutionary turmoil. Perez ultimately grew up in suburban New Jersey, as what could best be described as a normal middle class American child. Howerver Perez spent many weekends in the hills of New Jersey playing war games. These weren't the usual Boy Scout fare; they were sponsored by the C.I.A. and were instrumental in what later became the Bay of Pigs fiasco and other insurgencies.

Arriving in Miami in 1977, Perez was at the center of a regional boom that was controlled by the Cubans. He became a significant player and in the process of traveling to meet his business obligations, he became familiar with the entire breadth of the Caribbean scene, from the Bahamas to Bogota, and many of the major players involved. Some of these people were Reggae singers, others business men, yet others drug lords.

Perez eventualy moved to the west coast of Florida and settled down on a farm, raising and breeding horses and tending his garden, and to the surprise and excitement of those who knew him, he began to write.