The last soldiers of the Cold War : the story of the Cuban Five

9781781688762

275 pages ; 21 cm

âUltimos soldados da Guerra Fria. English

First published as Os âUltimos Soldados da Guerra Fria, Companhia das Letras, 2011
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-275)

Veteran of the Angolan War, Renâe Steals a Plane in Cuba, Lands in Miami and Receives a Hero's Welcome
A MiG Commander Swims Seven Hours Across the Shark-Infested Guantanamo Bay; Arriving at a US Naval Airbase, He Emerges From the Sea Shouting: "I'm a Cuban Officer, I'm Defecting!"
Overnight, 130,000 People Flee Cuba for the United States and Defeat Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton
The Cuban Gerardo Hernandez Abandons His Diplomatic Career, Changes Identity and Lands in Miami as the Puerto Rican Manuel Viramontez
By the Middle of 1995 the Wasp Network has Thirteen Cuban Secret Agents in Anti-Castroist Organizations; But the FBI is Already Watching Them
Love Attacks the Secret Agents : Tony Marries Maggie and Renâe Manages to Bring Olga and His Daughter to Miami
Jose Basulto Defies the White House and the Cuban MiGs and Decides to Fly Once More over Havana
The Cuban Control Tower Authorizes the MiG Fighters to Shoot : Seconds Later, Two Cessnas Are Reduced to Dust over the Florida Straits
The Mercenary Cruz Leon Didn't Want to Kill Anyone; His Dream Was to Be Just Like Sylvester Stallone
For $7,500, the Salvadoran Returns to Cuba to Plant Another Five Bombs in Hotels and Restaurants
The Cuban Intelligence Services Set Two Traps, but Fail to Catch Big Paunch, the Recruiter of Mercenaries Hired by Miami
Fidel Castro Sends Bill Clinton a Letter with Accusations Against the Extreme Right-Wing Florida Organizations; The Carrier Pigeon is Nobel Prize Winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Six FBI Agents Arrive Secretly in Havana and Return to the United States with a Crate Full of Reports on the Florida Organizations Produced by Order of Fidel Castro
A Portrait of Cuban Miami : The Militant Anti-Castroist Rodolfo Frometa, the Pro-Cuban Journalist Max Lesnik and the Marxist Writer Norberto Fuentes
Leonard Weinglass, Attorney to Jane Fonda, Angela Davis and the Black Panthers Joins the Defense of the Cuban Five, but for Them the Die Had Already Been Cast
Afterword: This Story Will Only Be Finished When all Five of Us Are Free / by Renâe Gonzalez
Epilogue
List of Interviewees

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