This Is Cuba

An Outlaw Culture Survives

By: Ben Corbett

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Paperback | 31 March 2004 | Edition Number 1

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Beyond the throngs of tourists streaming through Central Havana's broad Prado Avenue, and outside the yoke of Castro's 43-year-old Revolutionary program, there exists a parallel Cuba - a separate evolution of a people struggling to survive. With personal stories that depict a people torn between following the directives of their government and finding a way to better their lot, journalist Ben Corbett gives us the daily life of many considered outlaws by Castro's regime. But are they outlaws or rather ingenious survivors of what many Cubans consider to be a forty-year mistake, a tangle of contradictions that has resulted in a strange hybrid of American-style capitalism and a homegrown black market economy.At a time when Cuba walks precariously on the ledge between socialism and capitalism, This Is Cuba gets to the heart of this so-called outlaw culture, taking readers into the living rooms, rooftops, parks, and city streets to hear stories of frustration, hope, and survival. Updated with a new preface.

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"Let it be said immediately that "This Is Cuba is quite simply the best, the most complete, and most devastating portrait of that unfortunate country to be found in any language."

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Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
Patria O Muerte! An Introduction	p. 1
La Cola Cubana: Waiting As a Way of Life	p. 13
Turismo O Muerte!	p. 20
Cuba's Stable Instability	p. 30
Viva Buena Vista	p. 42
Jineterismo: A Dollar Commodity	p. 56
Season of the Night	p. 65
The Cuban Survival Kit	p. 80
The Cuban Diet: Hotels Over Rice and a Pinch of Control	p. 86
La Bolsa Negra: Stepping Into Cuba's Black Market	p. 96
Paradise Crumbling	p. 109
The Revolution Is the Culture	p. 117
The Search for Cubanidad	p. 130
Still Isolated Behind the Palm Curtain	p. 142
Marches for Justice	p. 153
A Day At School	p. 162
Christmas with the Castros	p. 173
Reflections of the Parallel Culture	p. 189
Cuba on the Fringe: A Revolution of Ink	p. 204
Cuba, Drugs, and the Curse of Tio Sam	p. 217
Sea Lane to Paradise	p. 231
A Legal Escape	p. 245
Epilogue: A Post-Castro Cuba?	p. 253
Notes	p. 269
Bibliography	p. 273
Index	p. 277
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