Miguel A. Faria Jr. is the author of Medical Warrior and Vandals at the Gates of Medicine, and former editor in chief of the Medical Sentinel. He is presently Associate editor-in-chief and a World Affairs editor of Surgical neurology International (SNI) His most recent book is Cuba in Revolution: Escape From a Lost Paradise. A retired neurosurgeon, […]
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An Evening with Dr. Faria Last week a friend and I went to Coral Gables, Florida to see Dr. Miguel A. Faria, Jr. discuss Cuba in Revolution: Escape from a Lost Paradise. This important book combines autobiography with meticulous analysis, a chronicle of totalitarianism and the exile compelled by it. Faria inherited a love of
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Thirty-six years ago after a harrowing ordeal at sea, Miguel A. Faria, Jr., escaped from Cuba with his father and found a new home in the United States. Cuba’s loss was America’s gain. A consummate historian, Dr. Faria here applies himself with gusto, using a treasure-trove of inside information to tell his personal odyssey and
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The vicious regime of Fidel Castro has for more than 40 years trampled on individual rights in Cuba, but the details of his seizure of power and subsequent Stalinist rule remain surprisingly little known in the United States. Within weeks of the September 11 terrorist attacks, everyone was hearing about the atrocities of the Taliban
El tema político cubano sigue en el tapete casi a diario, ya que hay más de dos millones de exiliados sólo en el territorio de los Estados Unidos…y la situación política del “Verde Caimán — Cuba — no se soluciona y ni siquiera se estabiliza. Los testimonios de aquéllos que huyeron del horror “comunista” —
Regarding your editorials “Bush’s Cuba Pickle(1)” (May 9) and “Our Man in Havana(2)” (May 16): While the U.S. embargo has not forced Fidel Castro’s capitulation, since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, it has limited his capacity to subvert his Latin American neighbors, forcing him to liberalize economic policies in order to remain
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