An edition of The last soldiers of the Cold War (2015)

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the story of the Cuban Five

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May 25, 2022 | History
An edition of The last soldiers of the Cold War (2015)

The last soldiers of the Cold War

the story of the Cuban Five

"Here is the story of political prisoners finally freed in December 2014, after being held captive by the United States since the late 1990s. Through the 1980s and 1990s, violent anti-Castro groups based in Florida carried out hundreds of military attacks on Cuba, bombing hotels and shooting up Cuban beaches with machine guns. The Cuban government struck back with the Wasp Network--a dozen men and two women--sent to infiltrate those organizations. The Last Soldiers of the Cold War tells the story of those unlikely Cuban spies and their eventual unmasking and prosecution by US authorities. Five of the Cubans received long or life prison terms on charges of espionage and murder. Global best-selling Brazilian author Fernando Morais narrates the riveting tale of the Cuban Five in vivid, page-turning detail, delving into the decades-long conflict between Cuba and the US, the growth of the powerful Cuban exile community in Florida, and a trial that eight Nobel Prize winners condemned as a travesty of justice. The Last Soldiers of the Cold War is both a real-life spy thriller and a searching examination of the Cold War's legacy"--

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English
Pages
275

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Table of Contents

Veteran of the Angolan War, René 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 René 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 René Gonzalez
Epilogue
List of Interviewees.

Edition Notes

First published as Os Últimos Soldados da Guerra Fria, Companhia das Letras, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-275).

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
327.7291073/0904
Library of Congress
E183.8.C9 M6613 2015, UB271

The Physical Object

Pagination
275 pages
Number of pages
275

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27183353M
ISBN 10
1781688761
ISBN 13
9781781688762
LCCN
2015004310
OCLC/WorldCat
891609097

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