Castro's Final Hour

by Oppenheimer, Andres

• ISBN13: 9780671872991
• ISBN10: 0671872990
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-10-29
• Publisher: Touchstone

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.

Castro's Final Hour is a compelling and intimate portrait of the Cuban leader, and an authoritative evaluation of what the future may hold for his country.

Author Biography

Andrés Oppenheimer is the editor and syndicated foreign affairs columnist with The Miami Herald, anchor of "Oppenheimer Presenta" on CNN En Español, and author of seven books, several of which have been published in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese

Table of Contents

Note to the Reader	p. 9
A Crack in the System: The Ochoa-De La Guardia Case (1986-1989)	p. 15
The General, the Playboy and the Drug Smuggler	p. 17
The Boys Are in Trouble	p. 53
A Trial with a Message	p. 99
The Purging of a Nation	p. 130
Marooned: Panama, Nicaragua and the Soviet Pullout (1989-1990)	p. 165
Exit Panama	p. 167
Exit Nicaragua	p. 193
The "Bolos" (Soviets) Pack Up	p. 221
Bicycles, Oxen and Potato Jam	p. 245
Che's Grandchildren	p. 267
The Politics of Survival: Selling Out the Cuban Revolution (1990-1991)	p. 283
Banking on an Old Ghost - Tourism	p. 285
The Zombie Factor	p. 304
Courting the Babalaos	p. 338
Collapse of a Revolution (1991-1992)	p. 357
The Soviet Coup	p. 359
The Congress	p. 387
Requiem for a Revolution	p. 401
Epilogue	p. 424
Acknowledgments	p. 435
Notes	p. 437
Bibliography	p. 461
Index	p. 463
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