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Free Download Verne Lyon, "Eyes on Havana: Memoir of an American Spy Betrayed by the CIA"
English | ISBN: 1476670900 | 2018 | 227 pages | PDF | 7 MB
An Iowa boy away at college, Verne Lyon was recruited by the CIA to spy on college professors and fellow students as part of Operation CHAOS, a massive surveillance program at the height of the Vietnam War. Framed by his handlers for an airport bombing, he was later sent to Cuba to subvert the Castro regime. Balking at increasingly nefarious missions, he tried to quit: twice kidnapped by the CIA, he landed in Leavenworth. Today a free man, his memoir details his journey through the secret workings of the U.S. government.

Free Download Robert Wright, "Three Nights in Havana: Pierre Trudeau, Fidel Castro, and the Cold War World"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0002158000, 000200626X | EPUB | pages: 320 | 1.0 mb
On January 26, 1976, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau became the first leader of a NATO country to visit Cuba since the crippling 1960 American economic embargo. Accompanied by his wife, Margaret, and baby Michel, Trudeau was greeted in Havana by 250,000 cheering Cubans and a 30-foot poster of himself. "Long live Prime Minister Fidel Castro!" Trudeau would famously shout at the love-in.In this fascinating portrait of an unusual relationship between two enigmatic world leaders, author and historian Robert Wright brings to life three days of Canadian politics played out on the international stage. In a revealing look at both leaders’ personalities and political ideologies, Wright shows how these two towering figures―despite their official positions as allies of rival empires―determinedlyrefused to exist merely as handmaidens to the United States and forged a long-lasting relationship.

Free Download Hope Bastian, "Everyday Adjustments in Havana: Economic Reforms, Mobility, and Emerging Inequalities "
English | ISBN: 1498571093 | 2018 | 214 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
By comparing the current reform process under President Raúl Castro to Cuba’s opening to market capitalism during the 1990s Special Period crisis, Everyday Adjustments in Havana: Economic Reforms, Mobility, and Emerging Inequalities highlights the differences and continuities between adjustments in both periods and their social impacts. It explores the impacts of specific policies such as the expansion of self-employment and the recreation of a private housing market, examining how changes in domestic and international policies after 2011 have modified the post-Special Period status quo and contributed to the formation of new social groups that did not previously exist in Cuba’s Socialist society.