1959: The Year That Inflamed the Caribbean

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This edition is the revised by the writer and reedited edition of a self-published book with the similar title but different subtitle.(The year that changed our word) Certain years are pivotal in global history, and one such year was once 1959, from which this book takes its title. 1959 was once indeed an historic year throughout which, among other historic events, Fidel Castro’s guerrilla war in Cuba toppled dictator Fulgencio Batista. This intriguing book, drawn from the pages of the writer’s English-language weekly newspaper, the Haiti Sun, and from his notebooks, provides a journalist’s firsthand take a look at Papa Doc’s reaction–in the beginning easing, then tightening much more brutally his tyrannical rule. Diederich then traces the ensuing impacts on Haiti’s relations with the U.S., other Caribbean nations, the remainder of the Western Hemisphere, and the international community. 1959 is an historically compelling book which traces a pivotal year that started with Fidel Castro’s victory in Cuba, triggering reverberations that changed the Caribbean. Bernard Diederich was once also an eyewitness to the end of the guerrilla war and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. He secured the primary interviews with Comandante Camilo Cienfuegoes and with Raul Castro after Cuban revolutionaries entered Havana, and he attended Fidel Castro’s first press conference.

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