Ada Ferrer on America’s Imperial Adventures in Cuba


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The historian Ada Ferrer gained the Pulitzer Prize for her 2022 e-book, “Cuba: An American Historical past,” and she or he has one of many clearest views of the lengthy and vexed relationship between the island and its big neighbor. Ferrer left Cuba as an toddler, coming to the US together with her mom in 1963 when Fidel Castro’s regime was arguably at its peak. David Remnick talks with Ferrer in regards to the influence of U.S. sanctions, the financial collapse of Cuba, and what Donald Trump’s menace of a “takeover” means to the Cuban folks and to Cuban People within the U.S.

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