Ready, Aim, Fire!: Character Assassination in Cuba: Gordiano Lupi, Juan Antonio Blanco, Uva de Aragon, Carlos Alberto Montaner and Rafael Rojas
Saturday, Nov. 17, 10:00 a.m., Room 8501 (Building 8, 5th Floor)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Gordiano Lupi
What are the implications of deliberately assassinating a person’s character, or of ruining a social group’s institutional reputation? Ready, Aim, Fire! Character Assassination in Cuba (Eriginal Books, $9.99) explores that question through the lens of the Cuban experience over the last fifty years. Gordiano Lupi is a writer, essayist, translator and journalist for La Stampa of Turin, Italy.
Juan Antonio Blanco
What are the implications of deliberately assassinating a person’s character, or of ruining a social group’s institutional reputation? Ready, Aim, Fire! Character Assassination in Cuba (Eriginal Books, $9.99) explores that question through the lens of the Cuban experience over the last fifty years. Juan Antonio Blanco was a university philosophy professor, foreign policy analyst, and diplomat for the Cuban government at the United Nations.
Uva de Aragon
What are the implications of deliberately assassinating a person’s character, or of ruining a social group’s institutional reputation? Ready, Aim, Fire! Character Assassination in Cuba (Eriginal Books, $9.99) explores that question through the lens of the Cuban experience over the last fifty years. Uva de Aragon is former Assistant Director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University and the author of more than a dozen books on topics related to Cuba.
Carlos Alberto Montaner
What are the implications of deliberately assassinating a person’s character, or of ruining a social group’s institutional reputation? Ready, Aim, Fire! Character Assassination in Cuba (Eriginal Books, $9.99) explores that question through the lens of the Cuban experience over the last fifty years. Carlos Alberto Montaner is one of the most widely read journalists in the Spanish-speaking world, whose columns and articles are read by an estimated 6 million readers. He is the author of approximately 25 books of essays and narratives.
Nació en La Habana y vive en Madrid desde 1970. Escritor, periodista, profesor, conferencista, ha publicado numerosos libros, artículos y ensayos en diarios de España, Estados Unidos y América Latina. Perromundo, 1898: La Trama y La mujer del coronel. Entre sus obras más conocidas y traducidas están Manual del perfecto idiota latinoamericano y El regreso del idiota, ambas escritas junto a Álvaro Vargas Llosa y Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza. Presenta en la Feria Otra vez adiós (Alfaguara), obra que es un thriller, porque nunca sabemos los que sucederá en la siguiente página; que es una novela sobre el amor y la naturaleza humana, y que es una novela histórica, porque la atormentada existencia del protagonista acaba siendo la del siglo XX.
Rafael Rojas
What are the implications of deliberately assassinating a person’s character, or of ruining a social group’s institutional reputation? Ready, Aim, Fire! Character Assassination in Cuba (Eriginal Books, $9.99) explores that question through the lens of the Cuban experience over the last fifty years. Rafael Rojas is a professor and researcher at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching at the Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City.
Historiador y ensayista cubano radicado en México. Autor, entre otros títulos, de Cuba mexicana. Historia de una anexión imposible, Premio Matías Romero de Historia Diplomática 1999; La escritura de la independencia. El surgimiento de la opinión pública en México (2003); La Independencia. Los libros de la patria, en colaboración con Antonio Annino, y Tumbas sin sosiego. Revolución, disidencia y exilio intelectual cubano, Premio Anagrama de Ensayo 2006. Es miembro del consejo editorial de Istor. Revista de Historia Internacional (México). Actualmente es profesor e investigador del Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), en la ciudad de México. Presenta en la Feria La máquina del olvido (Taurus), un conjunto de ensayos sobre la historia de las ideas en Cuba que analiza entre otros temas el nacimiento de la historiografía cubana y la cultura política en la isla anterior a la Revolución.
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Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 8501 (Building 8, 5th Floor)
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