Information and Resources
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Exile Community Experts
The following is a list of recognized Cuba experts who are not affiliated with the Cuba Study Group -
Net for Cuba International
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Instituto de Estudios Cubanos
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Raices de Esperanza
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Cuban American National Foundation (CANF)
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Cuban Liberty Council
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Center for a Free Cuba
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Directorio Democratico Cubano
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Consenso Cubano
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Coordinadora Social Democrata
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Partido Democrata Cristiano
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Union Liberal Cubana
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Cuban Studies Institute
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Acción Democratica Cubana
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Agenda Cuba
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Confederación Campesina de Cuba
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Brothers to the Rescue
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Movimiento Democracia
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Cuban American Veterans Association
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Generation Miami
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Diaspora y Desarrollo
The website DIASPORA AND DEVELOPMENT is part of the Project "The Cuban Diaspora and the Development of the Entrepreneurial Sector [in Cuba]," of the Cuban Research Institute (CRI), at Florida International University; and is implemented in cooperation with the Cuba Study Group. D&D wishes to contribute to the success of Cuban entrepreneurs on the Island, and of family and friends that support them from the Diaspora.
Articles, Opinions, and Papers
April 2013
Fire at TV Marti causes damage to central newsroom
April 23, 2013
MiamiHerald.com
MIAMI -- The Office of Cuba Broadcasting headquarters was temporarily evacuated after a trashcan fire that caused damage to the central newsroom. The accidental fire was started Sunday by a cigarette left in a container in a designated smoking area outside the building in Miami.
Freed Cuban spy seeks return for father's death
April 8, 2013
MiamiHerald.com
MIAMI - A convicted Cuban spy still serving probation in the U.S. is asking a federal judge to allow him to return to Cuba temporarily for his father's memorial service.
Jorge Mas Santos: Uniting what Castro has divided
April 6, 2013
MiamiHerald.com
The Cuban exile community used to be referenced by my father, Jorge Mas Canosa, with a simple phrase, “We unite all that Castro has divided.” The truth of this statement must have resonated loud and clear a few evenings ago in the ears of a young Cuban lady, fresh from the pervading, ratcheting, command of “fatherland or death” of the Cuba run by the Castro brothers.
Glimmer of Cuban reconciliation in activist's trip
April 5, 2013
MiamiHerald.com
For 50 years, Felice Gorordo's grandmother and great uncle did not speak. She fled Cuba after the 1959 communist revolution and never looked back. Her brother fought with the revolutionaries and remained on the island.
Winds of change
April 5, 2013
The Miami Herald
As Yoani Sánchez departs South Florida to continue her tour through Europe and Latin America before heading back to Cuba, the dissident blogger has managed to bring together exiles of all generations and political philosophies to focus on the one truth they can all agree on: The 54-year-old dictatorship must end.
Yoani Sánchez's tweetup lures 250 people to Arsht Center
April 3, 2013
The Miami Herald
The questions for Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez came in fast via Twitter during Wednesday’s town hall-style meeting at downtown Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.
Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez gets joyous Miami welcome
April 1, 2013
The Miami Herald
Cuban dissident journalist and blogger Yoani Sánchez received an ebullient welcome in her first public appearances Monday in Miami, as she called exiles and citizens of the Communist-ruled island a single people and urged them to overcome divisions imposed by a dictatorial regime to secure a future for their homeland.
March 2013
Yoani Sanchez - The Huffington Post
I've found a Cuba outside of Cuba, I told a friend a few days ago. He laughed at my play on words, thinking I was trying to create literature. But no. In Brazil, a septuagenarian excitedly gave me a medal of the Virgin of Charity of Cobre. "I have not been back since I left in 1964," she confirmed as she handed me this little gem that had belonged to her mother.
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Suggested Books
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Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana
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Ann Louise Bardach
Vintage (2003)
PEN award–winning investigative journalist Ann Louise Bardach, delivers an incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth century’s wiliest political survivor and his fiefdom. Cuba Confidential is the gripping story of the shattered families and warring personalities that lie at the heart of the forty-three-year standoff between Miami and Havana. Famous to many Americans for her cover stories and media appearances, Ann Louise Bardach has been covering Cuba for a decade. She’s talked to the crooks, spooks and politicians who have made history, and to their hired assassins and confidants. Based on exclusive interviews with Fidel Castro, his sister Juanita, his former brother-in-law Rafael Díaz-Balart, the family of Elián González, the friends and family of the legendary American fugitive Robert Vesco, the intrepid terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, and the inner circles of Jeb Bush and the late exile leader Jorge Mas Canosa, Cuba Confidential exposes the hardball take-no-prisoners tactics of the Cuban exile leadership, and its manipulation and exploitation by ten American presidents. Bardach homes in on Fidel Castro and his cronies, taking us closer than we’ve ever been—and on the militant exiles who have devoted their lives, with CIA connivance, to trying to eliminate him. From Calle Ocho to Juan Miguel González’s kitchen table in Cárdenas, from Guantánamo Bay to Union City to Washington, D.C., Ann Louise Bardach serves up an unforgettable portrait of Cuba and its exiles. -
Cuba on My Mind: Journeys to a Severed Nation
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Roman de la Campa
Verso (2000)
Cuba on my Mind examines the dual Cuban capitals of Havana and Miami to offer an insight on the two Cubas: their obsessive attempts to deny the other, their uses of migration as a political card, and their nationalistic passions. The impasse over Elian Gonzalez is only the most publicized chapter in the ongoing rift between the two Cuban capitals of Havana and Miami. In this gripping personal account of the forty-one-year-old divide between Cuba and its exile population in the United States, Roman de la Campa questions both sides of a family feud that is acutely reflective of his own experience. Cuban born and commuting between the arch-enemies in spite of their respective roadblocks, he tells the story of his coming of age in the Cuban diaspora, with its faded sympathies for revolution, and his continuing disdain for official Miami, the exile capital. Cuba on my Mind takes the three migration waves of Cubans to the United States as a historical backdrop for the author's story. Through these de la Campa's memoir offers a hard look at his two Cubas, their obsessive attempts to deny the other, their respective use of migration as a political card, and their nationalist passions. Above all it shows how globalization and post-socialism are shaping a Cuban national split with obvious consequences, not only for Havana, but also for the United States. -
Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959-1994
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María Cristina García
University of California Press (1996)
In the years since Fidel Castro came to power, the migration of close to one million Cubans to the United States continues to remain one of the most fascinating, unusual, and controversial movements in American history. María Cristina García–a Cuban refugee raised in Miami–has experienced firsthand many of the developments she describes, and has written the most comprehensive and revealing account of the postrevolutionary Cuban migration to date. García deftly navigates the dichotomies and similarities between cultures and among generations. Her exploration of the complicated realm of Cuban American identity sets a new standard in social and cultural history.