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Finding Manana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus
Ojito relates her story of growing up in Cuba in the 1960's-70's, under Fidel Castro's government, and leaving Cuba in the 1980 Mariel boatlift when she was 16. She tells how the role of ordinary people in the boatlift managed to change the history of Cuba, South Florida and the U.S., as, she claims, President Carter partly lost the reelection because of the boatlift. She tells how although the White House attempted to deter the boatlift, Cubans came together to flee Cuba and arrive in Key West.
Tags: Fidel Castro; Cuba; Carter; Mariel; White House; Communist; Cold War; memoir
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Tropic Sex and Survival
The Herald looks at the life of William Darrow, the scientist who first discovered that AIDS was a sexually-transmitted disease. After gaining fame by tracking the origins of the disease in the United States, Darrow has moved to Miami to study the disease in a new community where no one knows his identity. Now Darrow is to trying to explain why the disease continues to spread if people know how they contract it and know how to prevent its transmission.