This Is Cuba

Description

"Beyond the throngs of tourists streaming through Central Havana's broad Prado Avenue, and outside the yoke of Castro's 43-year-old Revolutionary program, there exists a parallel Cuba - a separate evolution of a people struggling to survive. With personal stories that depict a people torn between following the directives of their government and finding a way to better their lot, journalist Ben Corbett gives us the daily life of many considered outlaws by Castro's regime. But are they outlaws or rather ingenious survivors of what many Cubans consider to be a forty-year mistake, a tangle of contradictions that has resulted in a strange hybrid of American-style capitalism and a homegrown black market economy."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

"Rico mani! Rosita rica!" At the Payret theater on the corner of Prado Avenue and San Jose, an old woman drifts past, drawling out the tired vowels, her hand wrapped around a dozen cucuruchos, white paper cones of fresh roasted peanuts, as if she were clasping a bouquet of fragrant white mariposas.

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Other Editions

• This Is Cuba: An Outlaw Culture SurvivesPaperbackWestview Press2004-03-30
• This Is CubaHardcoverDiane Pub Co2002-01-01
• This is CubaHardcoverWestview Press2002-10-15
• This Is CubaBasic Books2007-01-01