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Book Review of Castro's Final Hour: The Secret Story Behind the Coming Downfall of Communist Cuba

Castro's Final Hour: The Secret Story Behind the Coming Downfall of Communist Cuba
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This is a well-researched, objective and still sympathetic account of life in Cuba during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Amazing revelations of behind-the-scenes intrigue and personal portraits abound, and the reader gets to see, smell, feel and taste Cuban reality as lived by the participants. As a prophetic work, it obviously falls short--the Castro brothers and the Revolution, aged and tattered as they may be, are still with us.