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Cuba, pese a la intensa propaganda, es una isla rodeada de misterios.Como es la psicologia de Fidel Castro, el hombre que la gobierna desde hace 40 anos? Como llego al poder y como se sostiene?Quien era realmente el Che Guevara? En que consiste realmente la Revolucion? Cuaaacute, les son sus fallos y sus logros? Que va a suceder cuando desaparezca Fidel Castro? Este libro responde a todas esas preguntas. Es un viaje al corazon de Cuba. Viaje al corazon de Cuba is an examination of the last forty years of Cuban history recounting the events that led to what was originally a fight for freedom and democracy but which instead under the leadership of Fidel Castro became a communist dictatorship. The author provides a brief history of Cuba prior to 1952 with an overview of Castro's life, illustrating the events that led to the fight against Batista, the defeat of his 40,000-man army and the ultimate establishment of communist rule in Cuba. This new book by the bestselling co-author of Manual del Perfecto Idiota Latinoamericano and Fabricantes de Miseria, Carlos Alberto Montaner, will provide answers for anyone interested in the current state of affairs in Cuba as well as what may be expected for the country in the future.

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• I. Retrato del joven Fidel Castro(p. 11)
• La ninez de un caudillo(p. 17)
• Gangsters y revolucionarios(p. 23)
• II. El telon de fondo(p. 33)
• Criollos, liberales y anexionistas(p. 38)
• Liberales e independentistas(p. 42)
• La Republica levantisca(p. 48)
• Batistianos, autenticos y ortodoxos(p. 55)
• III. La insurreccion(p. 63)
• El ataque al Moncada(p. 68)
• Guevara, Guatemala y la radicalizacion(p. 75)
• De Mexico a Sierra Maestra(p. 78)
• La oposicion se envalentona(p. 84)
• Batista y los norteamericanos(p. 90)
• IV. El comunismo ha Ilegado(p. 99)
• Un gobierno en la sombra(p. 104)
• El paredon de fusilamientos(p. 109)
• La destruccion de la sociedad civil(p. 113)
• La insurreccion anticomunista(p. 117)
• La oposicion y Washington(p. 120)
• Playa Giron(p. 126)
• De la crisis de los misiles a la muerte de Kennedy(p. 133)
• V. Los fines, los medios y los logros(p. 141)
• Gusanos, homosexuales y hombres nuevos(p. 149)
• Anatomia del terror(p. 153)
• Fuera de la Revolution, nada(p. 161)
• Balseros y jineteras(p. 167)
• La conquista del Tercer Mundo(p. 171)
• Castro y Gorbachov(p. 185)
• La narco-revolucion(p. 187)
• El postcomunismo(p. 195)
• Disidentes y sociedad civil(p. 203)
• La visita del Papa(p. 209)
• Los logros de la Revolucion(p. 212)
• VI. La otra orilla(p. 225)
• Exilio provisional y permanente(p. 230)
• Una valvula para Castro(p. 234)
• Una nueva etapa(p. 237)
• Mas Canosa y el lobby(p. 241)
• Los congresistas cubanoamericanos(p. 244)
• La Plataforma Democratica y la reconciliacion(p. 248)
• Epilogo: El dia que murio Fidel Castro(p. 253)
• Bibliografia(p. 265)
• Indice onomastico(p. 279)

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Library Journal Review

Montaner starts his biography of Fidel Castro noting that of all living political figures Castro stimulates the most interest. He ends the book with an epilog portraying Castro's hypothetical death and the subsequent decommunization of Cuba. Castro has been simply a disaster for Cuba. Interested in power for its own sake; devoid of loyalty to anything except his own conceptions and place in power; uncomfortable around those who grapple with ideas, such as Che Guevara, Castro has depended on charisma, fear, and Soviet support. In the last decade, Soviet support has ceased, his charisma has diminished, and fear has taken up the slack. Montaner paints an unchanged Castro and sketches the damage that this has caused his fellow Cubans: the exodus, the hunger, the prostitution, the poverty. A corroborating read for those who oppose Castro and a necessary one for those who don't.--John P. Farrance (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.