Cuba

by Jacobo Timerman

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 14, 1994

About the author

Jacobo Timerman was born in the Ukraine, moved with his family to Argentina in 1928, and was deported to Israel in 1980. He returned to Argentina in 1984. Founder of two Argentine weekly newsmagazines in the 1960s and a commentator on radio and television, he was best known as the publisher and editor of the newspaper La Opinión from 1971 until his arrest in 1977. An outspoken champion of human rights and freedom of the press, he criticized all repressive governments and organizations, regardless of their political ideologies.

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 1 out of 5]

I absolutely no sense is this a travel book, although it makes a token show of being one. There are 3 or 4 interactions with locals and 2 or 3 car journeys, the rest of this very short book is interviews with journalists and writers about the state of Cuba in 1988.
I would love to read Paul Theroux travelling around Cuba in the 80s, but as a travel book in the classic travel style this is pointless