Adrift - The Cuban Raft People (Paperback)

In Adrift: The Cuban Raft People, Alfredo Fernandez surveys the turbulence produced an entire hemisphere away by the collapse of the USSR and concludes that the greatest collateral damage has been inflicted not on the regime of Fidel Castro but rather upon the men, women, and children seeking to flee his dictatorship. For though U.S. immigration policy changed soon after, Castro's grip on the Cuban people has remained unyielding, even as extraordinary economic crises have wracked the island. As a result, countless refugees seeking freedom have disappeared without a trace into the churning waters of the Florida Straits.