December 2001. NewsMax.com
"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
U.S.-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 which
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 anti-communist
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 anti-communist
RD, the 13th of March movement, that stood for free-market reforms and the
elimination of government corruption.
Faria¹s 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, such as the little-known anti-communist 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 author¹s escape and a
recounting of Cuban revolutionary history. Faria brings us up to date on
U.S.-Cuba relations, the reasons for continuing the U.S. 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.
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"To read 'Cuba in Revolution - Escape From a Lost Paradise' is to
relive the author¹s 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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"Cuba in Revolution - Escape From a Lost Paradise" is $26.95 (add
$3 shipping and handling). Written in English, this hardcover, 450-page book
contains illustrations, appendices, a selected bibliography and an extensive
index.
You can order directly from our website at http://www.haciendapub.com or you
can call toll free 1-800-757-9873 to order. You can still receive this book in
time for Christmas – but you must act now! You can also use our mailing
address: Hacienda Publishing, P.O. Box 13648, Macon, GA 31208-3648. And, be sure
to let us know if you want your book autographed by the author!
To check out Dr. Faria's articles on Cuba and on the
Second Amendment, see NewsMax.com (Castro/Cuba and
Guns/Gun
Control).
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