Boxing for Cuba

By Guillermo Vincente Vidal
(Ghost Road Press, Paperback, 9780978945602, 240pp.)

Publication Date: November 2007

Categories: Caribbean & West Indies - Cuba, Personal Memoirs, Political

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The whims of politics are at the fore of Guillermo Vincente Vidal's memoir, in which young boys become men in the shadow of revolution and personal turmoil. Vidal writes about his family's participation in events that forever altered U.S.-Cuban relations after an effort to free children from the threat of Communist rule sparked Operation Peter Pan. From chance encounters with Fidel Castro and Robert F. Kennedy to life in a dismal Catholic orphanage in Colorado, Vidal perseveres to embrace life as a proud and successful Cuban American. His account is a poignant story of struggle, forgiveness, and the joy of returning home.
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