Castro's final hour : the secret story behind the coming downfall of communist Cuba / Andres Oppenheimer.

By:

Oppenheimer, Andres, 1951-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Spanish Publication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1993.Edition: 1st Touchstone ed., Updated with a new epilogueDescription: 474 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

0671872990 (pbk.)
0671728733

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

972.9106/4 20

LOC classification:

107 F 1788.22 O62c 1993

Contents:

pt. I.A Crack in the System: The Ochoa-De La Guardia Case (1986-1989). 1. The General, the Playboy and the Drug Smuggler. 2. The Boys Are in Trouble. 3. A Trial with a Message. 4. The Purging of a Nation -- pt. II. Marooned: Panama, Nicaragua and the Soviet Pullout (1989-1990). 5. Exit Panama. 6. Exit Nicaragua. 7. The "Bolos" (Soviets) Pack Up. 8. Bicycles, Oxen and Potato Jam. 9. Che's Grandchildren -- pt. III. The Politics of Survival: Selling Out the Cuban Revolution (1990-1991). 10. Banking on an Old Ghost -- Tourism. 11. The Zombie Factor. 12. Courting the Babalaos -- pt. IV. Collapse of a Revolution (1991-1992). 13. The Soviet Coup. 14. The Congress. 15. Requiem for a Revolution.

Summary: Reported from inside Cuba by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Andres Oppenheimer, Castro's Final Hour chronicles the dramatic events that have crippled the more-than-three-decades-old Marxist regime of Fidel Castro. From the execution of the country's most celebrated Army general in 1989 to the devastating effects of the loss of all Soviet aid, the picture Oppenheimer paints is extraordinarily detailed and

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"A Touchstone book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-462) and index.

pt. I.A Crack in the System: The Ochoa-De La Guardia Case (1986-1989). 1. The General, the Playboy and the Drug Smuggler. 2. The Boys Are in Trouble. 3. A Trial with a Message. 4. The Purging of a Nation --
pt. II. Marooned: Panama, Nicaragua and the Soviet Pullout (1989-1990). 5. Exit Panama. 6. Exit Nicaragua. 7. The "Bolos" (Soviets) Pack Up. 8. Bicycles, Oxen and Potato Jam. 9. Che's Grandchildren --
pt. III. The Politics of Survival: Selling Out the Cuban Revolution (1990-1991). 10. Banking on an Old Ghost --
Tourism. 11. The Zombie Factor. 12. Courting the Babalaos --
pt. IV. Collapse of a Revolution (1991-1992). 13. The Soviet Coup. 14. The Congress. 15. Requiem for a Revolution.

Reported from inside Cuba by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Andres Oppenheimer, Castro's Final Hour chronicles the dramatic events that have crippled the more-than-three-decades-old Marxist regime of Fidel Castro. From the execution of the country's most celebrated Army general in 1989 to the devastating effects of the loss of all Soviet aid, the picture Oppenheimer paints is extraordinarily detailed and

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