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
May 2012
April 2012
Román embodied healing, hope and exile
April 14, 2012
MiamiHerald.com
fsantiago@MiamiHerald.comTo his faithful followers, he was " el padre Román," a dedicated spiritual counselor like no other.
To the last moments of his life, he listened and offered words of healing and hope.
Beloved Cuban bishop Agustín Román dies in Miami
April 12, 2012
MiamiHerald.com
Associated PressMIAMI - Agustín Román, the first Cuban to be appointed bishop in the United States, has died in Miami. He was 83.
The Archdiocese of Miami announced Román went into cardiac arrest and died Wednesday evening.
Cuba: a look from the inside
April 9, 2012
Andy Gomez, The Miami Herald
One of the reasons I went to Cuba during the pope’s visit was to see and hear from men and women of all ages what they thought of the current economic, political, and social conditions. As an academic that deals with this subject each day, it is very hard to continue to build future scenarios and make predictions without seeing it firsthand.
William Booth, The Washington Post
HAVANA — The setting was historic. The looming 18th-century Seminary of San Carlos in Old Havana. The attendance remarkable. A hall packed with professors, dissidents, clergy, bloggers, leftists, diplomats. The subject matter once unthinkable.
March 2012
Tomas Bilbao, Americas Quarterly Blog
Like his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Cuba at a crucial time in the nation’s history. Pope John Paul II visited in 1998, a time when Communist Europe had crumbled and expectations of change were high; Pope Benedict XVI landed during a time of unprecedented internal change.
Miami archbishop returns from Cuba pope visit
March 30, 2012
AP, The Wall Street Journal
MIAMI — The impact of the pope's trip to Cuba will be felt in the long-term, but the pilgrimage to the island from Miami has already brought healing to many Cuban-Americans who participated, Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski said Thursday.
Cuban-Americans traveling to homeland see hope in future
March 30, 2012
AP, Fox News
Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Cuba drew nearly 300 Americans to the island they or their parents long ago fled. What they found was a country that was different from the one they had imagined, yet somehow still close to the place they had dreamed of.
Flotilla shoots off fireworks near Cuba
March 29, 2012
Cammy Clark, The Miami Herald
OFFSHORE OF HAVANA -- As the bright orange sun set Tuesday, a Cuban exile flotilla of three fishing boats called the Democracia, Muscle Princess and Nilito’s Toy II stopped in choppy, deep blue international waters — 12 ½ nautical miles from Havana — to set off fireworks. They symbolized “lights to liberty.”
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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.