**Cuba, I Remember You is a book about family, love, relationships, and survival in difficult circumstances that all readers will find to be a wonderful reading experience.
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CUBA, I REMEMBER YOU/CUBA, TE RECUERDO
A collection of 14 short stories, all in Spanish and English, based on the author’s experiences of childhood before and after the Communist revolution. Includes Appendix for educators wishing to use the book in Spanish or English foreign language classes. Lots of nostalgia for those who knew Cuba in the 50’s and 60’s and plenty of humor for readers in general. Includes also many period family photographs that illustrate the stories and bring them vividly to life!

About the Author

Dr. Oscar M. Ramírez-Orbea, was born in Camagüey, Cuba, in 1955. He emigrated with his family to the US in 1966, after completing elementary school in his home country. He longs one day to return to his native city of Camagüey and to all the fond memories it holds for him. CUBA, I REMEMBER YOU/CUBA, TE RECUERDO is Dr. Ramírez’s first narrative work. More

Available now from Airleaf Publishing (www.airleaf.com) or call today to order your copy at 1-800-342–6068.

Product Details
Paperback: 392 pages
Publisher: Airleaf Publishing; 1st edition (January 10, 2006)
Language: English, Spanish
ISBN: 1594539553

By the same author:

Cuba, Between History and Legend
A collection of short stories based on Cuban legends and unusual histories, all told in thoroughly original and creative ways. All stories are narrated in English and Spanish on facing pages. Includes also substantial background information on the actual events on which the stories are based, as well as references for follow-up reading, and historical illustrations for all the stories. For brief descriptions of the stories, go to http://www.cubairememberyou.zoomshare.com On the market by year’s end. Cuba … like you’ve never read it before!

Por el mismo autor:

Cuba, Entre la Historia y la Leyenda
Una colección de cuentos cortos basados en leyendas cubanas y en eventos insólitos de la historia de Cuba, todos narrados en un estilo originalísimo y de gran fantasía. Se narran todos los cuentos en inglés y en español, en páginas opuestas. Incluye considerable información adicional sobre el fondo histórico de cada cuento, al igual que sugerencias para otras lecturas sobre la misma temática, y se incluyen ilustraciones históricas de cada uno de los cuentos. Para leer breves descripciones de cada cuento, favor de dirgirse a http://www.cubairememberyou.zoomshare.com En venta hacia finales del año. Cuba ¡como nunca te la imaginaste!

Que bien que tus abuelos sean de España, muchos españoles fueron a Cuba, mi bisabuelo tambien : ), yo vivo en el norte de España, en la region de Asturias junto a Galicia, mi ciudad es pequeña, se llama Gijón.. aquí puedes verla http://www.ayto-gijon.es/galeria espero que te guste. Si quieres podemos seguir en contacto cuando quieras, mi gmail es seterom@gmail.com

Un abrazo amiga

Sobre el asunto de las encuestas indicando que un 60% de españoles deseaban un cambio de gobierno, recuerdo haberlo escuchado en la radio, en concreto en la emisora cadena ser http://www.cadenaser.com, de todas formas te dejo un link con las portadas del periodico de mayor tirada en españa para que veas como los votos estaban disputados y no tan claros como algunos dicen.

http://www.elpais.es/archivo/hemeroteca.html?ed=diario&day=10&month=03&year=2004&cals=0

Finalmente, te felicito por tu estupendo español!, mi ingles es bastante malo.. es lo que aprendi en la escuela, asi que perdona que no escribiese bien en ingles.

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Xrlq: I know in US media its said that but before the bombing our media was talking about the election and US media wasnt focused, you have to know facts from first moment to understand what happened, i will tell you some facts.
1) Some people in USA thinks that Aznar lost the election, he didnt, the candidate of the conservative party (partido popular) was Mariano Rajoy, he wasnt very popular between people while Zapatero was for years.
2) The conservative candidate did a bad campaign and Zapatero asked him to make debate, Rajoy refused because he knew he would lost the debate, it helped Zapatero.
3) After 4 years of rule with absolute majority of seats many of policies of our conservatives became really impopular, we students remember the “LOU” a law of universities that didnt like almost anybody of students, deans, etc, same with a new law of education called “LOCE”, same with an accident of soldiers that we had helping you (and we still have with Zapatero) in Afganistan.. about 60 soldiers died because the Aznar goverment rented a Yak-42 russian plane, something crazy but truth.
A disaster of a ship called prestige didnt help the Aznar goverment to be very popular before elections, do you remember exon valdez in Alaska? we had something like that because our authorities refused to repair a ship full of oil, our nothern coast got black.
The conservative party also lost a lot of suppot in the regions of Aragon and Catalonia because “Plan Hidrologico Nacional” a plant to transfer water from the northern rivers of spain to southern areas that endangered the enviroment while experts asked for other solutions.
I dont want to get it boring for you with many internal issues of spanish policy that made many people to wish a change, but there were many others of course… including going war to iraq against 90% of the people.
4)This was the second election with Zapatero as leader of socialists, the first was in 2003 in the local councils and Autonomous Communities (something like the states in a federal country) and in the winner were the socialist with no bombings.
5)The spanish cell of al-qaeda wasnt coordinated with bin laden’s stuff, they were a group of morrocans islamists. Explosives were provided to them here in my province by a group of spanish who we suspect also sold explosives to basque group ETA.
6)I’ve read socialist party of spain is a marxist country, no… is not a marxist country, as tony blair labour party, schoreder SPD or many other socialdemocratic countries that currently are goverment in europe arent.
7)We know arabs very good, in fact they are our neighbours and we have 1 million of them as illegal inmigrants here, the fanatic views of islam of some of them goes further than any goverment decision and wash brain of their people.
8)We dont see the american people or its president as an evil or enemy as ive read in some forums, althougt we can share or not its conservative policies, its way to fight against bin laden, or its way to help Al-qaeda to get more and more members to this cause in the islamic world (eg: Iraq new terrorists killing your soldiers everyday), we know very good the side we have to stay and fight, thats why this goverment and as previous one is helping to prevent new Al-qaeda cells to enter in USA, stay with USA with even more spanish soldiers in Afganistan (something that your media also forgets), or unifies our police database with FBI to share information about terrorists.
9)We are not stupid to think that if our goverment retires from irak (because it was what the socialist party promised *before* bombings when they entered in goverment, we wont have more acts of terrorism… of course we are target of future attacks of terrorists as you are too, only police and intelligent actions help to prevent terrorist attacks, unfortunately it didnt happen with the goverment we had before march elections.

I remember to see and hear in our media those days that many of us wanted to change goverment, i remember i think that poll was in a radio network called cadena ser http://www.cadenaser.com, anyway i give you a link of our most important newspaper frontpages so you can read the coverage of those days if you are interested and think we only care bombs and not a good healthcare system, strong economy, safety, investment in R&D, education, or all those things that goverments should care and which in the end are really important in our lives everyday.

http://www.elpais.es/archivo/hemeroteca.html?ed=diario&day=10&month=03&year=2004&cals=0

Sorry for my horrible english from school, and congratulations for your wonderful spanish.

Liberals make my brain hurt.

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