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The Group CONVIVENCIA is a team of secular workers of Christian ideas, based in Cuba, which publish a magazine promoting democratic ideals in Cuba, under the direction of Dagoberto Valdes, Catholic leader and one of today's most respected Cuban intellectuals. This book fills a void, since civic and ethical ideas are not taught in Cuba and are essential in the formation of new generations of Cubans. Studying topics such as the human person, the...

Dulce Maria Loynaz (La Habana, Cuba, 1902-1997) es una de las escritoras más importantes de Cuba e Hispanoamérica. Recibió el Premio Cervantes (el más importante para escritores hispánicos) en 1992. Este libro en ediciones de Ana Rosa Nunez, contiene el mayor parte de sus poesías, antología de su prosa y estudios sobre su obra literaria de importantes críticos.

In this book Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and author of more than one hundred books on issues of language and the Cuban traditions, presents us with the most extensive collection ever published of cuban jokes before and after the Castros, including many on Fidel and Raul Castro. With illustrations of cuban cartoonists.

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En forma cronológica presenta el autor información no conocida sobre las actividades terroristas y en el narcotráfico del gobierno de Fidel Castro. Revela también informaciones sobre el juicio de la Causa #1 de 1989, sobre el general Arnaldo Ochoa y los hermanos De la Guardia, sobre la guerra en Angola y otros escenarios fuera y dentro de Cuba en los que participara directamente o tuviera información por sus amigos del MININT y el MINFAR, que ...

Acuerdos, desacuerdos y recuerdos recoge una serie de textos de José Ignacio Rasco, algunos de 1959 y 1960, que muestran sus comienzos en el espacio público cubano, una extensa semblanza de Fidel Castro, su compañero de curso en Belén y en la Universidad de La Habana, y una larga entrevista que le hace en 1998 la Dra. Silvia Pedraza, profesora de sociología de la Universidad de Michigan-Ann Arbor, en que conversa con gran libertad sobre su amp...

Father Amando Llorente, S.J. was born in Mansilla Mayor, Leon, Spain, on August 24, 1918. He went to Carrión de los Condes de Palencia, a jesuit high school, and afterwards decides to enter the Jesuit order. He majors in philosophy at Oña, Burgos, and teach at Colegio de Belen in Havana, Cuba, from 1942 to 1945. He continues his studies in theology at the University of Comillas as well as Heythrop College in Oxford, England. He was subsequentl...

Basado en el libro escrito por Jose M. Muzaurieta en 1922. Muza quiere moralizar las costumbres, pero como cree que el pais vive en el cinismo, da las instrucciones para que el lector pueda convertirse en un politico corrupto, pero triunfador.

Salvador Larrua-Guedes (Camagüey, Cuba, 1942) went to grade school and high school in Catholic schools in Cuba. He received degrees in journalism and mathematics, as well as a doctorate in Economics. He is a registered investigator at the Archivo General de Indias in Spain. Ex-professor at the University of Havana and the Cuban Seminar (San Carlos), he is the author of 42 history books. Monsignor Roman was a holy man, totally given to virtu...

AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM IN THE SPANISH ANTILLES UNTIL 1898

The author, Oscar A. Echevarria Salvat, graduated with a degree in economics from the University of Villanueva (Havana) and Georgetown University (Washington DC) where he was also a professor. He organized the survey the Agrupacion Catolica Universitaria (ACU) conducted on the peasant Cuban population of 1957, which was very revealing although usually cited by other sources in a biased and inaccurate manner. This book, whose first edition was ...

This book is a novel that tells the story of Antonio and Fernando Bachicao, father and son, both officers of the Ministry of the Interior. Colonel Antonio Bachicao, former member of Che Guevara's troop, is a high-level agent of the section specializing in espionage and subversion. His son Fernando, a lawyer, has the rank of captain and is the head of the Department of Technical Investigations in Santiago de Cuba, which investigates common crim...

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...

Orestes Ferrara (Napoli, 8 July 1876 - Naples , 16 February 1972 ) was a lawyer , politician and writer, Italian naturalized Cuban , officer and director of the new State caribbean which will also - among other tasks - Speaker of the House of Representatives, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Delegate to UNESCO, Professor of Political Law at the University of Havana, and Ambassador at the United States. In 1896, at age 20, when Orestes was a law ...

Reinaldo Arenas is one of the leading Cuban writers of the twentieth century. He was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1943. From 1974 to1976 he was incarcerated in the El Morro prison in Havana. He left Cuba in 1980 via the Mariel Boatlift along with125, 000 other Cubans who were opposed to the ruling regime in Cuba. He settled in New York where he obtained the Cintas and Guggenheim fellowships, as well as the award for best foreign novelist published...

This book is a facsimile of the original 1956 anthology of classic Cuban recipes that were collected and published for the benefit of the "Costales" and "San Marcos" wings of the "General Calixto Garcia" university hospital in Havana. The editors gathered the best in gastronomic cuisine as well as Cuban traditional recipes from the most prominent families of the time. The names credited for the recipes are among the best known in Cuban society...

Dr. Julio C. Pita, Jr. has a private endocrinology and diabetes practice in Miami since 1976 and is recognized internationally as a specialist in this field. This is Type II diabetes manual. The book explains what Type II diabetes is as well as the six steps that need to be followed in order to avoid getting this condition and its consequences. It is also an indispensable manual for those already diagnosed because in clear, concise, and acces...

Teresa Fernandez Soneira (Havana, Cuba, 1947-) is a Cuban writer and historian that has researched and published books on the history of education and the Catholic Church in Cuba. As a researcher, she has made important contributions with her books: Apuntes desde el Destierro (1990), CUBA: Historia de la Educación Católica 1582-1961(1997), Con la Estrella y la Cruz: Historia de las Juventudes de Acción Católica Cubana (2002), y Niños que Triun...

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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 ...