Reviews
Cuba: Confronting the U.S. Embargo by Peter Schwab, St. Martin's Press, 1999, 240 pp., $29.95 (cloth). In the wake of the Clinton Administration's recent decision to reject a bipartisan commission's...
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...What is presented here is ultimately not just the "politics of illusion...
...Beyond the novelty of the gathering itself, it was also significant that most of the participants were speaking on the record for the first time and with access to recently declassified U.S...
...And there is much more-revealing insights about mutual U.S.-Soviet (mis)perceptions, the actual level of early Soviet support for the Cuban Revolution, the intricacies of decision-making structures and interagency relations, and the remarkable ability of key actors in pivotal positions to influence the outcome of events...
...Educators and students will find these chapters particularly useful in that they provide a succinct overview of the conflict and of the region...
...and Soviet government agencies, Cuban exile and resistance organizations, and various Cuba, U.S...
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...He analyzes the distinct emphases on economic and social rights versus political and civil rights as a way to frame his central argument-that the embargo itself constitutes a human rights violation...
...The discussions, presented as transcripts, make for fascinating and riveting reading as a key moment in the history of the Cold War is literally brought to life...
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...Given the complexity of the topic, the range of participants, and consequently, the diversity of experiences and opinions, the organizers and editors did a masterful job of moderating the discussion and presenting the material...
...The strength of Schwab's work, however, lies in illustrating how the embargo has affected the lives of ordinary Cuban citizens in the areas of public health, food, religion and political dissent...
...The Bay of Pigs invasion, and perhaps much of subsequent U.S...
...Schwab provides a concise history and critique of the embargo from a human rights perspective...
...He also offers a discussion of how the contested language of human rights has led to different meanings of the concept in socialist and capitalist societies...
...foreign policy, and it left a legacy of recrimination and accusations of betrayal...
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...The book is carefully written, and it makes a compelling argument for the dismantling of an egregious policy...
...The Musgrove Conference on the Bay of Pigs invasion brought together for the first time key participants and decision makers from U.S...
...They also offer a useful historical background for understanding current U.S...
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...Embargo is valuable reading for anyone concerned with the issues surrounding the embargo...
...In hindsight, the resistance put too much faith in what they ironically refer to as "John Wayne"the CIA, the U.S...
...government and anti-Castro Cubans to over58 NACIA REPORT ON THE AMERICASREVIEWS throw the nascent revolutionary government of Fidel Castro was one of the great debacles in U.S...
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...The failed attempt by the U.S...
...An excellent tool for discussion and classroom use, Cuba: Confronting the U.S...
...Embargo is a particularly relevant and timely text...
...embargo, Peter Schwab's Cuba: Confronting the U.S...
...policy towards Cuba, can be also seen to represent the "illusion of politics...
...The initial chapters of Cuba provide a brief overview of the embargo, its origins and the economic and political role the United States has played in the eastern Caribbean...
...military and ultimately a new president who was still untested in foreign policy...
...The latter led them to the assumption that they could apply the Guatemala model-the 1954 CIA operation that toppled President Arbenz-to Cuba...
...In the wake of the Clinton Administration's recent decision to reject a bipartisan commission's recommendation to lift the U.S...
...Cuba policy...
...government documents...
...foreign policy and Cold War specialists...
...John F. Kennedy inherited a misguided operation from an illustrious predecessor, and put his trust in military and intelligence advisors who ultimately misled him...
...Bernardo Ruiz Politics of Illusion: The Bay of Pigs Invasion Reexamined edited by James G. Blight and Peter Kornbluh, Lynne Reinner, 1998, 284 pp., $45.00 (hardcover...
...The CIA overestimated both the scope of the resistance and the level of popular opposition while underestimating Castro's leadership and level of support...
...The picture that emerges in these remarkably open and candid discussions, however, is a complex interweaving of layers of illusion, self-deception and misunderstanding...
...In the final analysis, the book performs the important service of bringing history to life by revealing the complexity of the decisionmaking process and putting a sympathetic but flawed human face on what is normally rendered as a series of "historical" events and judgments based on hindsight...
Vol. 32 • March 1999 • No. 5
