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An Americano: One Usonian´s Perspective From South of the Border: February 2010
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An Americano: One Usonian´s Perspective From South of the Border. A place for posts and comments about the micro and macro in Mexico, Cuba, and beyond. Monday, February 15, 2010. I am reading Amy Butler Greenfield´s book, A Perfect Red. Sunday, February 14, 2010. I recently came across this interesting article by Stephen Kinzer. It is a more open approach than you often see in the press, posing a question to readers: Which would you choose? 168; he began. ¨We don´t have an indigenous popula...And for sur...
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An Americano: One Usonian´s Perspective From South of the Border: William Morgan Makes The New Yorker
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An Americano: One Usonian´s Perspective From South of the Border. A place for posts and comments about the micro and macro in Mexico, Cuba, and beyond. Sunday, May 20, 2012. William Morgan Makes The New Yorker. Suddenly, William Morgan is a hot topic. David Grann, author of. The Lost City of Z. Has just published an article about Morgan in The New Yorker. Read it here. I will blog about the article when I have had a chance to read it closely. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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An Americano: One Usonian´s Perspective From South of the Border: Morgan in Colombia: Semana magazine
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An Americano: One Usonian´s Perspective From South of the Border. A place for posts and comments about the micro and macro in Mexico, Cuba, and beyond. Monday, May 28, 2012. Morgan in Colombia: Semana magazine. This past weekend, the magazine Semana in Bogotá, Colombia published this, Spanish-language article. The reporter asked me if Morgan had been with the CIA. I said, "No," and I compared the facile slander of identifying someone as a CIA agent in Cuba with calling someone a communist in the US.
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An Americano: One Usonian´s Perspective From South of the Border: October 2012
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An Americano: One Usonian´s Perspective From South of the Border. A place for posts and comments about the micro and macro in Mexico, Cuba, and beyond. Monday, October 29, 2012. Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo´s Final Statement. What follows is my rough translation of a document that he gave to his daughter to be published after his death. It was. Published in Spanish in El Pais on October 26, 2012. The Cuban Revolution Is Depleted. By Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo. In the time I've spent here, some of the Cuban officials...
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An Americano: One Usonian´s Perspective From South of the Border: The Miami Herald Interview, Unabridged
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An Americano: One Usonian´s Perspective From South of the Border. A place for posts and comments about the micro and macro in Mexico, Cuba, and beyond. Sunday, May 20, 2012. The Miami Herald Interview, Unabridged. I linked to The Miami Herald articles in my previous blog post. This is far from a simple case. My answers to the reporter´s questions give some sense of the complexity, the politics and the historical context. Reading my answers over, I am tempted to make some slight adjustments or additions t...
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An Americano: One Usonian´s Perspective From South of the Border: March 2009
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An Americano: One Usonian´s Perspective From South of the Border. A place for posts and comments about the micro and macro in Mexico, Cuba, and beyond. Friday, March 27, 2009. Overheard: ¨La Gringa¨. Thursday, March 26, 2009. Insidemex.com report on Hillary´s Visit. Mexico City - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sat center stage at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, flanked by five Mexican scholarship winners to the US, attired in the indigenous garb of their home regions. Click to read more:. To my m...
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An Americano: One Usonian´s Perspective From South of the Border: Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, 1934 - 2012
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An Americano: One Usonian´s Perspective From South of the Border. A place for posts and comments about the micro and macro in Mexico, Cuba, and beyond. Friday, October 26, 2012. Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, 1934 - 2012. Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo died this morning in a Havana hospital of an apparent heart attack, according to an AP report. I will write more about Menoyo soon. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Americano by Aran Shetterly. Cait and Dan Go West - An American Story. The Cuban Information Archive.
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An Americano: One Usonian´s Perspective From South of the Border: Shanghaied by David Paul Collins: A Review
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An Americano: One Usonian´s Perspective From South of the Border. A place for posts and comments about the micro and macro in Mexico, Cuba, and beyond. Tuesday, April 3, 2012. Shanghaied by David Paul Collins: A Review. This is the first part of a two part discussion of David Paul Collins´ book, Shanghaied. This post looks at the book and its story. The second will examine the author´s strategy for publishing and marketing the book. Just three months have elapsed when the book ends, but by then Sligo is ...
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An Americano: One Usonian´s Perspective From South of the Border: April 2012
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An Americano: One Usonian´s Perspective From South of the Border. A place for posts and comments about the micro and macro in Mexico, Cuba, and beyond. Tuesday, April 3, 2012. Shanghaied by David Paul Collins: A Review. This is the first part of a two part discussion of David Paul Collins´ book, Shanghaied. This post looks at the book and its story. The second will examine the author´s strategy for publishing and marketing the book. Just three months have elapsed when the book ends, but by then Sligo is ...
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An Americano: One Usonian´s Perspective From South of the Border: AS Quoted in The Miami Herald
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An Americano: One Usonian´s Perspective From South of the Border. A place for posts and comments about the micro and macro in Mexico, Cuba, and beyond. Sunday, May 20, 2012. AS Quoted in The Miami Herald. I was quoted a few days ago in a sidebar article in The Miami Herald. The lead article to the sidebar. For those who aren´t familiar with it, my book The Americano: Fighting with Castro for Cuba´s Freedom. Is about the life and death of William Morgan who fought with the Rebels in Cuba against the dicta...
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