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Raúl Eduardo Chao received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University and after a brief stint in industry spent 18 years in academe, as Full Professor and Department Chairman at the Universities of Puerto Rico and Detroit. In 1986 he founded a very successful management consultancy, assisting companies and government agencies to develop positive work environments and process improvement techniques as the means to secure improvements in productivity...

The author, Raul Eduardo Chao, received a Doctorate degree from John Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. He has worked as director of the Chemical Engineering programs at the University of Puerto Rico and Detroit, as well as a consultant for NASA and the private sector. He published the historic novels: Contramaestre, Baraguá & Jimaguayú and many others historical books like Exiled Cuba. The Spanish 400 year domination that ended in 1898 w...

Cuba's political life en 1952 was a sorrowful melodrama Carlos Prío had introduced reforms and gangsterism had diminished, his administration was better definitely than Ramón Grau San Martín's, his predecessor. People, however, were looking at politicians with little if any respect. Eduardo Chibás had demolished whatever stability was left of Cuba's fragile political life. Then, on march 10, 1952, an unexpected Batista Coup d'État shocked the ...

Una biografía ilustrada del Apóstol de la Independencia Cubana que incluye mas de 300 fotos originales que muestran la vida, la obra y los sacrificios de José Martí para llevar a Cuba una tercera y final Guerra de Independencia en 1895. Los marxistas y comunistas que ocupan el poder en Cuba desde hace mas de medio siglo pretenden hacer ver que representan el pensamiento y la obra de Martí. Este libro desmiente esas falsedades y es fiel a las i...

A historical account of the History of the Island of Cuba from the date of the encounter with the Europeans in 1492 to the day when the Republic ended in December of 1958. Un estudio de la Historia de la Isla de Cuba desde la fecha del encuentro con la civilización europea en 1492 hasta el día en que terminó la República de Cuba en Diciembre de 1958.

Album de Cuba is a monumental and masterful presentation of more than 2, 000 engravings, paintings and photographs that relate the history of the island of Cuba, from before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492, over the spanish colonial times through the XVI to the XIX centuries, the republican era from 1902 to the 1958 and down to the violent closing of the republic in December of 1958. The author is a well known author of a dozen boo...

This book presents 40 reasons why Hillary Clinton should not be elected to the presidency of the United States in 2016. All historical references and arguments are taken from prestigious magazines and newspapers like the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN and the Wall Street Journal. The author contends that the only path for Hillary's road to the White House is to destroy her adversary, much like Barrack Obama did against Mitt Romney in...

All throughout history, people have praised revolutions as one of the ways to remedy their lack of freedom and abolish the unearned privileges of others. Revolutions, however, pervert their very aims by bringing uncontrollable anarchy, atrocities, revenge, loss of human talent and destruction of material resources. Their attempts to rebuild society in more human terms always fail miserably. In practice, most revolutions can only be stopped by ...

Un Festín de Palabras es una producción eminentemente cubana. Cuba ha sido siempre una isla rodeada de poetas por todas partes. Al ajiaco, la conga y las bellas mujeres cubanas, hay que añadir el alborozo y el júbilo que los cubanos siempre han sentido por la poesía. ¿Qué mejores exponentes de los poetas cubanos pueden presentarse que aquellos que el público o el Congreso de la República han escogido a lo largo de medio siglo como Poetas Nacio...

The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire were long gone and the last attempt of the Bourbons to restore the dynasty had been a fiasco. People revolted on July 28, 29 and 30, 1830, in what became known as the three glorious days. In the midst of all this, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada and his wife María del Carmen moved to Paris and soon welcomed as their guests five of the finest minds in Cuba, the last remaining Spanish colony in...

The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire were long gone and the last attempt of the Bourbons to restore the dynasty had been a fiasco. It fell on old and spent Marquis de Lafayette to promote the new French sovereign at the Hôtel de Ville: This were extraordinary times. Victor Hugo, Honoré Balzac, Chateaubriand, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, and the Goncourts were best sellers in Paris at the same time. Chopin, Liszt, Berlioz, Gounod, ...