The Struggle of exile for truth and freedom, an excelent book by Sam Verdeja and Guillermo Martinez. In Oct. 1965, President Lyndon B Johnson stated that the spirit of American held tradition as an asylum for the oppressed, and he pledged to “the people of Cuba that those who seek here will find it.” And they did. The essays in Cubans explore different topics but share a similar endeavor -to reveal the complex interrelationships among the Cuban people, their homeland, the exile community and the American government and society. The Cuban experience in America and other countries has proven disappointing and remarkable; disapointing because a homeland was lost and attempts to retrive it turned into a nightmare, remarkable because refugees settled in their new countries and soon flourished, particularly in the United States in many aspects of society.
