Why Cuba and the United States Are Forever Linked ► FINCHANNEL
For NYU historian Ada Ferrer, who has written three books about Cuba, the island nation is much more than the focal point of her scholarship. It is also deeply personal. Born in Havana, between the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Ferrer left the country, as an infant, with her mother in the spring of 1963—while many family members remained behind. They joined Ferrer’s father, who had previously been imprisoned by the Castro regime as a suspected counterrevolutionary, in New York City. “Ours was not the only family torn apart by the revolution,” Ferrer wrote in theFor...
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