Desperation Island

Desperation Island Justas Franco died, and Tito died, and Grandma Moses died, Castro will die-as unlikely as it seems some days. He has ruled Cuba for 45 years now. It so happens that this is the same amount of time that Communists ruled Eastern Europe. As Mark Falcoff points out in this new book, Castro has reigned over Cuba for almost half of the country’s independent existence. (Some independence.) Falcoff is maybe the premier conservative scholar on Latin America, and by “conservative” I really mean democratic, and forthrightly anti-authoritarian. He is as clear-eyed as anybody about Latin America, digging out facts and drawing logical conclusions from them. His previous book was The Cuban Revolution and the United States, 19581960, indispensable to the specialist and valuable to the general reader as well. Cuba: The Morning After tackles the huge question of what will happen when Castro leaves the scene. Falcoff is quite sobering about this future; he is almost depressing. He does not believe that libMARK FALCOFF

CUBA THE MORNING AFTER

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Jay Nordlinger

Jay Nordlinger was a senior editor of National Review and a book fellow at National Review Institute.

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Desperation Island Justas Franco died, and Tito died, and Grandma Moses died, Castro will die-as unlikely as it seems some days. He has ruled Cuba for 45 years now. It so happens that this is the same amount of time that Communists ruled Eastern Europe. As Mark Falcoff points out in this new book, Castro has reigned over Cuba for almost half of the country’s independent existence. (Some independence.) Falcoff is maybe the premier conservative scholar on Latin America, and by “conservative” I really mean democratic, and forthrightly anti-authoritarian. He is as clear-eyed as anybody about Latin America, digging out facts and drawing logical conclusions from them. His previous book was The Cuban Revolution and the United States, 19581960, indispensable to the specialist and valuable to the general reader as well. Cuba: The Morning After tackles the huge question of what will happen when Castro leaves the scene. Falcoff is quite sobering about this future; he is almost depressing. He does not believe that libMARK FALCOFF

CUBA THE MORNING AFTER