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Hmmm, and I wonder way Mr. Eire is having so much trouble obtaining a print run in Latin America. . . Anyone care to venture a guess?

Anyhow, it's wonderful to think that the book will now enjoy an even wider audience. Cheers.

-AB

Make sure to watch ABC 20/20 this Friday September 7
ALL ABOUT THE REAL CUBAN HEALTH CARE!
ABC 20/20 will have a segment this Friday about healthcare that regular Cubans receive. It will be a "Give me a break" segment hosted by John Stossel.
It probably will be the last segment on that particular show.
20/20 airs at 10 PM EST and it lasts one hour.
I was interviewed as part of this program.
You will be able to see for the first time EVER on U.S. television, photos and videos taken inside Cuban hospitals, WITHOUT GOVERNMENT PERMISSION.
Please tell your friends.

Mr. Eire, the cover looks very nice, but you don't say "Otorgado el Premio Nacional del Libro". That's very, very bad Spanish. You say: "Ganador del Premio Nacional del Libro" o "Galardonado con el Premio Nacional del Libro".

Just placed my order. I have the english version, but would love to read it in spanish. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book when it first came out, and have since re-read it.

Kudos for Carlos. I am not surprised that a publisher in Spain or Latin America was not interested in this award-winning book because of its criticism of the Castro dictatorship. I am not even bothering to look for one of them to publish my "The Moncada Attack: Birth of the Cuban Revolution" in Spanish. I can wait a few more years until there is democracy in Cuba. Regarding translation, that is a problem when the book company hires translators for the cheapest rate available. I have read books that have been translated from Spanish into English, and they are very confusing.

Excellent news, congrats to Mr. Eire, his book will be a perfect addition to the birthday gift list that I've prepared for my parents, great timing also, as their b-days are just two days apart from each other and will be celebrated within a few weeks.

Dr. R. de la Cova, you may want to keep in mind that there are numerous contemporaries of my parents generation, as well as, not quite as many of my grandparents generation, that would love to be able to enjoy reading your book in Spanish, time waits for no man (or woman,) we've lost many of our ancestors and their precious knowledge, in my case, I will be fifty y.o. next month and no longer have ANY grandparents, my maternal grandmother passed away in June of 2004 at the golden age of ninety four. Would there be any possibility, or perhaps (I hope) a probability of you reconsidering your above stated position? Thank you sir.

On this translation and all translations:

All translations are an exercise in treason. In fact the words "treason" and "translation" in Latin share a common root.

On "Otorgado": It will be but one of a thousand such mistakes that will probably irritate the hell out of those who know Spanish from the inside out. All I can say is, in my best Desi Arnaz accent:
"Eetz no my translation..." and we had a sum total of five translators, some prize-winning authors in Spanish. So it goes.
On an early version of the translation, which I showed to a good Cuban friend from Chicago: my friend said: "Oye, si publicas esto, asi como esta, te van a mentar la madre en Miami..."

As Kurt Vonnegut would say, in his Trasfalmadorian voice: " So it goes"

The Spanish translation contains a three page apology for my bad Spanish, which I blame entirely on Fidel.

So it goes....

It was meant to be so....

Awesome. Now my abuelita can read it!

No takers in sPain or Latrine America? Imagine that. How peculiar. Well, perhaps they figure there's no need to belabor the obvious. After all, given a normal-range IQ, a passable education, and reasonable access to readily available information, who needs to have the Cuba tragedy spelled out for them?

I'm sure there's no attempt at any sort of censorship, selective (mis)information or perpetuation of convenient myths. And of course there's no hypocrisy or special agenda involved. That would be most unbecoming, and these are salt-of-the-earth book people, aren't they? They only want to propagate the truth. As long as it's their very special version of the truth, which some ill-mannered people call BS.

I'm tickled that my mother can finally read it. I'm thinking that Professor Eire should visit us in Sarasota. Our reading festival is the day before Miami's.

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