Vida Clandestina My Life in the Cuban Revolution [Hardcover]

Vida Clandestina is the first U.S. publication of the dramatic memoir of an important Cuban revolutionary who led a dangerous double life from 1952 to1959. Educated at University of Miami, then a high-ranking manager and engineer for Shell Oil, Enrique Oltuski was also a leader in the urban guerilla 26th of July Movement in Havana and Santa Clara, risking his life to join forces with Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, and working at the highest level of the Cuban government in the forty-three years since.

Foreword Eduardo Torres-Cuevas vii

Preface: Why I Wrote This Book xvii

A Brief History of Cuba xxiii

Map of Cuba xxxiii

Before the Plains and the Sierra

ONE Batista’s Coup d’État 3

TWO First Revolutionary Impulses 15

THREE Student in the United States 25

FOUR Journey to Latin America 35

FIVE Attack on the Moncada Barracks 45

SIX Return to Cuba 55

SEVEN Revolutionary Quest 63

EIGHT Joining the 26th of July Movement 75

The Plains

NINE Conspiracy in Havana 89

TEN The Civil Resistance Movement 105

ELEVEN The Fight in Las Villas 121

TWELVE Strike of April 9 139

THIRTEEN The Sierra Assumes Command 155

Photographs 173

The Sierra

FOURTEEN Che in Las Villas 189

FIFTEEN The Sierra Maestra 205

After the Plains and the Sierra

SIXTEEN Batista Flees 229

SEVENTEEN Fidel Marches on Havana 239

EIGHTEEN Government Minister 253

NINETEEN The Revolution Takes Power 267

Epilogue 275

Glossary 29l�