{"id":1094,"date":"2009-05-12T10:44:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T14:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2012-04-23T11:24:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T15:24:23","slug":"in-the-news-us-cuba-relations-in-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/in-the-news-us-cuba-relations-in-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News: US&#8211;Cuba Relations in 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Week of May 11, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News Item:<\/strong> The Obama administration recently announced that it is revising its policies on family travel to Cuba, remittances to family members, and regulations on gift parcels. According to a White House fact sheet, these changes are being made in order to &#8220;help bridge the gap among divided Cuban families and promote the freer flow of information and humanitarian items to the Cuban people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 192px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"456\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/fa.jsp?Ntt=FA001565341&amp;Ntk=Number&amp;Nty=1&amp;N=28&amp;I=0&amp;V=D\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1095\" title=\"The Declarations of Havana\" src=\"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/castro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/fa.jsp?Ntt=FA001218800&amp;Ntk=Number&amp;Nty=1&amp;N=28&amp;I=0&amp;V=D\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1105\" title=\"Writing to Cuba\" src=\"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lazo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/fa.jsp?Ntt=FA001675779&amp;Ntk=Number&amp;Nty=1&amp;N=28&amp;I=0&amp;V=D\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1106\" title=\"The Cuba Wars\" src=\"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/erikson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Adrift: The Cuban Raft People<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong>By Alfredo Fern\u00e1ndez. Arte Publico Press, 2000<br \/>\nCall Number: E184 .C97 F46 2000<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Castro: Man and Myth <\/em>(DVD)<br \/>\n<\/strong>Directed by Stephan Lamby and Volker Skierka. Distributed by The Cinema Guild, 2005<br \/>\nCall Number: F1788.22 .C3 C35 2005 (Media Center)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Cuba After Communism<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong>By Eliana Cardoso and Ann Helwege. MIT Press, 1992<br \/>\nCall Number: F1788 .C2575 1992<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong>By Louis A. P\u00e9rez, Jr. University of North Carolina Press, 2006<br \/>\nCall Number: E183.8 C9 P4653 2008<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Cuba: A Lifetime of Passion<\/em> (DVD)<br \/>\n<\/strong>Directed by Glenn Gebhard. The Cinema Guild, 2008<br \/>\nCall Number: F1788 .C73 2008 (Media Center)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Cuba on My Mind: Journeys to a Severed Nation<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Rom\u00e1n de la Campa. Verso, 2000<br \/>\nCall Number: E184 .C97 D4 2000<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Cuba Project: CIA Covert Operations, 1959-62<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong>By Fabi\u00e1n Escalante. Ocean Press, 2004<br \/>\nCall Number: E183.8 .C9 E8313 2004<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Cuba Wars: Fidel Castro, the United States, and the Next Revolution<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong>By Daniel P. Erikson. Bloomsbury Press, 2008<br \/>\nCall Number: F1788 .E65 2008<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Cuban Exile Movement: Dissidents or Mercenaries?<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Hernando Calvo and Katlijn Declercq. Ocean Press, 2000<br \/>\nCall Number: F1788. C246 2000<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Cuban Socialism in a New Century: Adversity, Survival, and Renewal<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong>Edited by Max Azicri and Elsie Deal. University Press of Florida, 2004<br \/>\nCall Number: HX158.5 C.85 2004<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Declarations of Havana<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Fidel Castro. Verso, 2008<br \/>\nCall Number: F1788.22 .C3 A5 2008<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Democracy Delayed: The Case of Castro&#8217;s Cuba<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Juan L. L\u00f3pez. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002<br \/>\nCall Number: JL1010 .L67 2002<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Entrevistas Cubanas: Historias de una Naci\u00f3n Divida<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Felipe Arocena. McFarland &amp; Co., 2004<br \/>\nCall Number: F1788 .A796 2004<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Fidel <\/em>(DVD)<br \/>\n<\/strong>Directed by Estela Bravo. Mongrel Media, 2001<br \/>\nCall Number: F1788.22 .C3 F523 2001 (Media Center)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Long Dark Night of Dark Intent: A Half Century of Cuban Communism<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong>By Irving Louis Horowitz. Transaction Publishers, 2008<br \/>\nCall Number: F1788 .H573 2008<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>I am Cuba<\/em> (DVD)<br \/>\n<\/strong>Directed by Mikhail Kalatozishvili. New Yorker Video, 2007<br \/>\nCall Number: PN1997 .I258 2007 (Media Center)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality and Culture<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Louis A. P\u00e9rez, Jr. University of North Carolina Press, 1999<br \/>\nCall Number: F1760 .P47 1999<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong>By Samuel Farber. University of North Carolina Press, 2006<br \/>\nCall Number: F1788 .F328 2006<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Truth about Fidel Castro: Revolution<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Mary Dodge. Northeastern UP, 2003<br \/>\nCall Number: F1788 .T78 2002<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong>By Michael Grow. University Press of Kansas, 2008<br \/>\nCall Number: F1418 .G83 2008<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Waiting for Fidel <\/em>(DVD)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Directed by Michael Rubbo. Facets Video, 2004<br \/>\nCall Number: F1765.2 W35 2004 (Media Center)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The War that Never Was: An Insider&#8217;s Account of CIA Covert Operations Against Cuba<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong>By Bradley Earl Ayers. Bobbs-Merrill, 1976<br \/>\nCall Number: F1788 .A88<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Where the Boys Are: Cuba, Cold War America and the Making of a New Left<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong>By Van Gosse. Verso, 1993<br \/>\nCall Number: HN90 .R3 G67 1993<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Women of Latin America. Cuba: The Children of Fidel<\/em> (DVD)<br \/>\n<\/strong>Directed by Carmen Sarmiento. Films for the Humanities &amp; Sciences, 2004<br \/>\nCall Number: HQ1460.5 .W63225 2004 (Media Center)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong>By Rodrigo Lazo. University of North Carolina Press, 2005<br \/>\nCall Number: E184 .C97 L39 2005<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/fa.jsp?Ntt=FA001218800&amp;Ntk=Number&amp;Nty=1&amp;N=28&amp;I=0&amp;V=D\"><\/a><\/strong>&lt;&#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week of May 11, 2009 News Item: The Obama administration recently announced that it is revising its policies on family travel to Cuba, remittances to family members, and regulations on gift parcels. 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