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Chronicles the life of the controversial Cuban leader, and describes the various assassination attempts against him, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the relationship between Cuba and Venezuela in the twenty-first century, the Helms Burton Act, and other related topics.

Explores the history, culture, people, political system, economy, and geography of Cuba; and includes maps, photographs, and a glossary.

Jana Hensel, thirteen on the night the Berlin Wall fell, discusses the impact of the dissolution of East Germany on her and her generation, tells of the initial rush to embrace the culture of the Western world, and recalls the comforts of her communist childhood.

The author, who was a chief correspondent for the New York Times in Germany, recalls the events associated with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the collapse of Communist governments throughout Eastern Europe.

"Yoani Sanchez is an unusual dissident: no street protests, no attacks on big politicos, no calls for revolution. Rather, she produces a simple diary about what it means to live under the Castro regime in Cuba: the difficulty of shopping and chronic hunger; the art of repairing ancient appliances; the struggle for real news and the burdens of reading the party newspaper; the fear of admission to hospitals that lack the supplies for basic sterilization; and a life structured by a propaganda machine that pushes deep into the media, the public square, and the schools. Each sensitive dispatch is a brutal and honest depiction of Cuban life today. For these simple acts of truth telling--which are published online at Generation Y, and collected here in English for the first time--Sanchez is treated as a domestic radical: she is summoned by the police; her friends are threatened; she was recently kidnapped and beaten. The state newspaper has gone so far to call her "a spy in the pay of capitalism." Her ultimate concern, however, is for her friends in prison, and for the many who have fled, and for all those who have ceased to believe in the future of Cuba. Here the situation is elegantly expressed from the perspective of important and compelling new voice, one that has already found a worldwide audience online"--.

Traces the political and social changes that occurred in Nicaragua after the Sandinistas overthrew the dictating Somoza family, which had backing from the United States; and discusses the rights of foreign nations to intervene in outside affairs in the twentieth century.

Presents a comprehensive guide to the history and culture of Germany's sixteen diverse federal states, and describes the geography, politics, economy, architecture, and important sites of the country.