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Cuba on the Brink: Ada Ferrer on Life Under US Pressure

Cuba on the Brink: Ada Ferrer on Life Under US Pressure

The Mishal Husain Show vor 4 Monaten

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Ada Ferrer won the Pulitzer Prize in 2022 for her acclaimed book,
Cuba: An American History, which examined the island’s
relationship with the US.

Her latest work, Keeper of My Kin, tells her family story: a
mother who fled the island nation carrying an infant daughter,
while leaving a brother behind.

Now, as Donald Trump increases pressure on Cubans and their
leaders, cutting off oil while obtaining an indictment of
Raul Castro for the 1996 shootdown of a small plane, Ferrer tells
Mishal Husain about the human cost of Cuba’s long crisis.

03:26 - Writing “Keeper of my Kin”

04:09 - A love-hate relationship with Cuba

05:40 - The Cuba of Castro

07:11 - Leaving Cuba in 1963

08:13 - Leaving her brother Poly behind

12:08 - Letters from Poly

15:48 - Cuba’s history of migration

17:58 - Helping family in Cuba

22:50 - People in Cuba are “suffering”

24:01 - A threat to US national security?

26:51 - A shared experience with Rubio

32:19 - Cuban-Americans and Trump

34:04 Obama’s visit to Cuba

37:52 - Calling myself an American

39:52 - The books is a “testament of love”

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