| Kissing Fidel: A Memoir of Cuban American Terrorism in the United States Contributor(s): Montiel Davis, Magda (Author) |
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ISBN: 1609387260 ISBN-13: 9781609387266 Publisher: University of Iowa Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Immigration - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Hispanic & Latino |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2020008834 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (0.90 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What does it mean to be instantly transformed into the most hated person in your community? After meeting Fidel Castro at a Havana reception in 1994, Cuban-born Magda Montiel Davis, founder of one of the largest immigration law firms in South Florida, soon found out. The reception--attended by hundreds of other Cuban migr s--was videotaped for historical archives. In a seconds-long clip, Fidel pecks the traditional protocol kiss on Montiel Davis's cheek as she thanks him for the social benefits conferred upon the Cuban people. The video, however, was mysteriously sold to U.S. reporters and aired incessantly throughout South Florida. Soon the encounter was an international cause c l bre. Life as she knew it was over for Montiel Davis and her family, including a father who worked with the CIA to topple Fidel, a nohablo-ingl s mother who lived with the family, her five children, and her Jewish Brooklyn-born attorney husband. Kissing Fidel shares the sometimes dismal, sometimes comical realities of an ordinary citizen being thrown into a world of death threats, mob attacks, and terrorism. |