The Cuban American Association of Pensacola (CAAP) was founded in 2000 in the wake of the Elián González affair. A number of us were sufficiently scandalized about the way the Cuban-American community was being misrepresented in the media to form an association which, among other purposes, would foster “accurate and fair reporting on Cuba and Cuban-Americans” and “preserve and transmit knowledge of the Cuban-American odyssey.” Founding or long-term Board members included Roberto de Varona (founding president), Juan Caballero, Zeida Ward (long-term president), Mayra Fillmore, Sylvia Machado, José Zayas, Marta Suárez-O’Connor, John Spurny, Julie Neyra, and Alfred Cuzán. The Board met monthly except in the summer. It organized two or three general meetings annually. The yearly highlights were a dinner dance honoring Cuba’s apóstol José Martí in late January or early February, when donations for one or more canastillas (layettes) were presented to the mother or mothers of a child born around Martís birthday, a historic Cuban tradition; and a roast pig feast held in late May to celebrate Cuba’s Independence Day. Also, whenever the media was abuzz with news about Cuba or Cuban-Americans, the Board would draft a letter for publication in the Pensacola News Journal commenting on the events. After 15 years in existence, the Board voted to “retire” the Association and to donate the balance of its bank account ($1,000) to the UWF library to purchase books on Cuba or Cuban-Americans. Thus the CAAP Cuban collection was born. Former CAAP members are encouraged to donate additional volumes. We are grateful to UWF for agreeing to host the collection.
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40 anos de revolucioÌn : el legado de Castro
A la sombra del mar : jornadas cubanas con Reinaldo Arenas
Against all hope : the prison memoirs of Armando Valladares
Alina : memorias de la hija rebelde de Fidel Castro
An atlas and survey of Latin American history
Anuario histoÌrico Cubano
BacardÌ y la larga lucha por Cuba
Bacardi and the long fight for Cuba : the biography of a cause
Before Fidel : the Cuba I remember
Breve historia de Cuba
Calixto GarciÌa : el estratega
Camilo Cienfuegos : ¿desaparecido o lo desaparecieron?
Carlos Manuel de CeÌspedes : de Yara a San Lorenzo : la lealtad y la perfidia, el brigadier de Cambute, el meÌdico de JiguaniÌ
Castro
Castro en la era de Gorbachov
Castro, Israel & the PLO
Castro's America department : coordinating Cuba's support for Marxist
Castro's revolution : myth and reality
Celestino antes del alba
Chavez, el delfin de Fidel : la historia secreta del golpe del 4 de febrero
CoÌmo llegoÌ la noche
Compañero : the life and death of Che Guevara
Contra toda esperanza
Contra toda esperanza
Contra viento y marea : periodismo y mucho maÌs
CroÌnicas de la RepuÌblica de Cuba : 1902
Cuba : anatomy of a revolution
Cuba : bringing the background to the foreground
Cuba : from economic take
Cuba : un siglo de doloroso aprendizaje
Cuba 1952
Cuba as a model and a challenge
Cuba at the crossroads : the visit of Pope John Paul II & opportunities for U.S. policy
Cuba hoy : la lenta muerte del castrismo
Cuba por dentro : el Minint
Cuba since the Revolution of 1959 : a critical assessment
Cuba then : rare and classic images from the Ramiro A. Fernandez collection
Cuba y su cultura
Cuba y sus Constituciones republicanas
Cuba, cronologiÌa : cinco siglos de historia, poliÌtica y cultura
Cuba, el socialismo y sus exodos
Cuba, mito y realidad : testimonios de un pueblo
Cuba: Castroism and communism, 1959
Cuban revelations : behind the scenes in Havana
Cubans : an epic journey : the struggle of exiles for truth and freedom
Cuba's digital revolution : citizen innovation and state policy
Cuba's intervention in Venezuela : a strategic occupation with global implications
Cuerpos divinos
Culture and the Cuban state : participation, recognition, and dissonance under communism
Death is not always the winner : a novel
Eduardo ChibaÌs : the incorrigible man of Cuban politics
El estante vacÌo : literatura y polÌtica en Cuba
El exilio indomable : historia de la disidencia cubana en el destierro
El hombre de Praga
El leoÌn de Santa Rita : el general Vicente GarciÌa y la guerra de los Diez Años, Cuba 1868
Family portrait with Fidel : a memoir
Fidel Castro
Fighting over Fidel : the New York intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution
Florida and the Mariel Boatlift of 1980 : the first twenty days
Fresa y chocolate = Strawberry and chocolate
Fue Cuba : la infiltracioÌn cubano
General del Pino speaks : an insight into elite corruption and military dissension in Castro's Cuba.
Giron 1961
Great houses of Havana : a century of Cuban style
Gritos de rebeldiÌa
Guantanamera
Guevara : anatomiÌa de un mito = Guevara : anatomy of a myth
Guillermo Cabrera Infante : two islands, many worlds
Harnessing the intellectuals : censoring writers and artists in today's Cuba
Havana
Havana : two faces of the Antillean metropolis
Havana real : one woman fights to tell the truth about Cuba today
Herejes
Historia del Monte de Piedad y Caja de Ahorros de CoÌrdoba (1864)
Historia mÌnima de la Revolucion Cubana
Historias de la otra revolucioÌn
Historic photos of Cuban Miami / text and captions by Jennifer Ortiz.
I was Cuba : treasures from the Ramiro Fernandez collection
Implications of the U.S. economic embargo for a political transition in Cuba
Incertidumbre : mis experiencias durante la crisis de la embajada del Peru en La Habana : acto de repudio sin precedentes : La Habana, Abril 1980
Inicios del independentismo en Cuba : las conspiraciones de 1809 y 1810
Is Fidel Castro a Machiavellian prince?
Journey to the heart of Cuba : life as Fidel Castro
Key to the New World : a history of early colonial Cuba
La arquitectura colonial cubana
La dinasta Castro : los misterios y secretos de su poder
La fiesta vigilada
La Guerra de Independencia de Cuba, 1895
La Habana : historia y arquitectura de una ciudad romantica
La Habana esplendorosa
La Habana para un infante difunto
La lucha de los Cubanos por la independencia
La maquina del olvido : mito, historia y poder en Cuba
La memoria frente al poder : escritores cubanos del exilio : Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Severo Sarduy, Reinaldo Arenas
La muerte de un burocrata = The death of a bureaucrat
La UMAP : el Gulag castrista
Las guerras mambisas
Las raÃces torcidas de América Latina
Lista de espera
Los fundamentos del estalinismo en Cuba
Los funerales de Castro
Lucia
Lunes de RevolucioÌn : literatura y cultura en los primeros anos de la RevolucioÌn Cubana
MaÌximo GoÌmez, el GeneraliÌsimo
Major Cuban novelists : innovation and tradition
Marketing without advertising : brand preference and consumer choice in Cuba
Memorias de un estadista : frases y escritos en correspondencia
Memories of underdevelopment
Mi lucha por la libertad : recuerdos de una 'epoca heroica
Mis relaciones con MaÌximo GoÌmez
My Cuba libre : bringing Fidel Castro to justice
My own private Cuba : essays on Cuban literature and culture
Narco
Next year in Cuba : a Cubano's coming
One island, many voices : conversations with Cuban
Operacion Pedro Pan : la historia inedita de 14.048 ninos cubanos
Otra vez adioÌs
Panorama de la novela cubana de la revolucioÌn, 1959
Political hospitality and tourism : Cuba and Nicaragua
Political imprisonment in Cuba : a special report from Amnesty International.
Presidio, the trip back
Prisons and concentration camps in Cuba.
Ready, aim, fire! : character assassination in Cuba
Real life in Castro's Cuba
Religion in Cuba
Reporting the Cuban Revolution : how Castro manipulated American journalists
Return to Havana : the decline of Cuban society under Castro
Revista hispano cubana : HC.
Revolutionary Cuba : a history
Secreto de estado : [las primeras doce horas tras la muerte de Fidel Castro]
Sent to the USA : memoirs of an exiled Cuban
Sin patria pero sin amo.
The conscience of worms and the cowardice of lions : Cuban politics and culture in an American context : the 1992 Emilio Bacardi
The Cuban masterworks collection Obras maestras del cine cubano
The Cuban Revolution and the United States : a history in documents, 1958
The Cuban revolution at thirty : proceedings from a conference sponsored by the Cuban National American Foundation.
The Cuban Revolution, 25 years later
The Cuban university under the revolution
The double life of Fidel Castro : my 17 years as personal bodyguard to El LÌder Maximo
The falsification of JoseÌ MartiÌ in Cuba
The Havana guide : modern architecture, 1925
The Havana habit
The lost city
The man who invented Fidel : Cuba, Castro, and Herbert L. Matthews of The New York times
The man who loved dogs
The Moncada attack : birth of the Cuban Revolution
The origins of the Cuban Revolution reconsidered
The revolution on balance / by Hugh Thomas.
The tiger and the children : Fidel Castro and the judgment of history
Three days in March : the events in 1952 that marked the beginning of the end of the Republic of Cuba
Three trapped tigers
Tiempo de canallas : el amor y la muerte en medio de la Guerra FriÌa
To die in Cuba : suicide and society
Transition from communism : lessons learned, challenges ahead for Cuba : the Omni Colonnade Hotel, Coral Gables, Florida, Tuesday, November 9, 2004 : conference proceedings
Twenty years and forty days : life in a Cuban prison
Unfinished spaces
Viaje al corazoÌn de Cuba
Voces tras las rejas : testimonios del presidio poliÌtico actual en Cuba
Waiting for snow in Havana : confessions of a Cuban boy