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Finding Mañana is a vibrant, moving memoir of one family's life in Cuba and their wrenching departure. Mirta Ojito was born in Havana and raised there until the unprecedented events of the Mariel boatlift brought her to Miami, one teenager among more than a hundred thousand fellow refugees. Now a reporter for The New York Times, Ojito goes back to reckon with her past and to find the people who set this exodus in motion and brought her to her new home. She tells their stories and hers in superb and poignant detail-chronicling both individual lives and a major historical event.
Growing up, Ojito was eager to excel and fit in, but her parents'-and eventually her own-incomplete devotion to the revolution held her back. As a schoolgirl, she yearned to join Castro's Young Pioneers, but as a teenager in the 1970s, when she understood the darker side of the Cuban revolution and learned more about life in el norte from relatives living abroad, she began to wonder if she and her parents would be safer and happier elsewhere. By the time Castro announced that he was opening Cuba's borders for those who wanted to leave, she was ready to go; her parents were more than ready: They had been waiting for this opportunity since they married, twenty years before.
Finding Mañana gives us Ojito's own story, with all of the determination and intelligence-and the will to confront darkness-that carried her through the boatlift and made her a prizewinning journalist. Putting her reporting skills to work on the events closest to her heart, she finds the boatlift's key players twenty-five years later, from the exiles who negotiated with Castro to the Vietnam vet on whose boat, Mañana, she finally crossed the treacherous Florida Strait. Finding Mañana is the engrossing and enduring story of a family caught in the midst of the tumultuous politics of the twentieth century.
On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Mariel boatlift, a Pulitzer Prize winner's extraordinary memoir of her childhood in Cuba and her historic journey to America
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A well written book unlike other Cuban exile books.......2006-10-06
This book does a great job of weaving the story of Mirta Ojito and her family with events in Cuba as they unfolded in the years before after the 1979-80 Mariel boat lift. Mirta Ojito is a gifted writer. She manages to find humor in the many absurdities of what still constitutes life in communist Cuba.
Manana: Found.......2006-06-01
In "Finding Manana," author Mirta Ojito is literally looking for "Manana," a boat that brought her and her family to Key West during the 1980 Mariel boatlift. But she's also looking for answers that will help her come to terms with yesterday and the political catalysts that led to one of the biggest mass migrations in US and Cuban histories.
What began as a memoir, telling those experiences from the power of memory from her childhood in Cuba, unraveled into a larger story of how Mariel played out and its effect today on Cubans like her in Miami.
The book seesaws between the personal story and the political and historic one.
Ojito's personal stories of growing up in Cuba and the profiles of other Cubans looking to leave their country "shaped like an alligator at rest" (p. 196) engage the reader the best. But the authoritative tone she alternates into for the layered factual and historic details tend to slow "Manana" down to a few knots.
For five months in 1980, Fidel Castrol unleashed 125,000 refugees from the port of Mariel to South Florida. It's these same people President Jimmy Carter took in like orphans looking to be adopted.
At 16, Ojito was a Marielita, a term that today still conjures up images of Cuban's most dangerous and mentally ill criminals, people "with glazed eyes, shaved heads and what appeared to be prison garb,'' (p. 211) seen as they came upon Florida's shores.
Through her narratives, Ojito shows there were more to Marielitos than the image of them projected in the media or in the movie "Scarface." They were hard-working families looking to escape Fidel Castro's regime for a better future in the US.
"To me, it was a badge of honor,'' she writes (p. 266). "a recognition that I belonged to a group of people who had once left their country as ballast and had managed to stay afloat, and even attain a measure of success.''
Ojito, for one, mastered English once in South Florida, became a reporter with The Miami Herald and later, The New York Times where she shared the 2000 Pulitzer prize for national reporting.
Using her lens as a journalist as well as the power of her memories of Cuba as her guide, she traces the boatlift to the men who orchestrated it and how their sometimes overlapping roles ushered this moment in both countries' histories.
Ojito also chronicles in detail their backstories, which humanizes them. Ojito sketches people like Hector Sanyustiz, the Cuban bus driver who barreled through the gates of the Peruvian embassy, which opened the floodgates for 10,000 Cubans seeking political asylum on its property.
She chronicles the clandestine dialogue with Bernando Benes, the Miami banker with ties to President Carter and who (meaning Benes) later held secret meetings with Castro to bring 3,000 political prisoners to the US.
And then there's captain Mike Howell, the Vietnam veteran who lost his arm in the war and began chartering his boat from New Orleans. The book picks up steam here as Ojito builds up to the actual boatlift.
Howell was moved by the story of passionate Cubans looking to pick up their relatives in Mariel that he agreed to bring them to Key West with help from his boat, the "Manana," which translates as "Tomorrow" in English. Ojito paints him as her personal hero.
"The man and the women in front of him seemed determined to go,'' Ojito writes of the group of Cubans who asked Howell's help in New Orleans. "Saving people was part of the Manana's mission, and Mike relished the idea of playing savior."
Yet for all the build-up to the actual journey from Mariel to Key West, there are only a handful of pages of the trip itself.
In "Finding Manana," Ojito doesn't just find the ship that bears its name. She also finds the real story of Mariel for herself and other fellow Marielitos.
from cuba to another place.......2006-01-08
The author details her life and the lives of others who have left Cuba and what they gained and lost in the transition. A well written book, even paced with good photographs.
Breathtaking.......2005-12-10
I'm a Marielito and many of the experiences Ms. Ojito describes are similar to mine. That's what makes it authentic to me. The book itself is well researched, well developed and well written. It properly contextualizes the event. Those looking for a rabid denunciation of Mr. Castro should look somewhere else. Ms. Ojito, like me, doesn't care so much about Castro as to be obsessed with him.
Finding Manana Review.......2005-09-07
If you like to know more about Cuban life during Castro's beginning of his dictatorship, and the feelings and how people reacted, this book is good for you. This novel Finding Manana by Mirta Ojito is about a girl who is growing up in a communist Cuba when Castro had just took over and how her family escaped.
The book Finding Manana is a memoir about a girl growing up in a communist Cuba and when she escaped and lived in the United States. It is also of how she got out of Cuba and all the trouble her and her family went through to get out of Cuba.
"The Valley Chief's has broken down and there is no way to get out of Cuba's port". Mirta Ojito and her family have come to an obstacle when trying to get out of Cuba's port to get to the United States.
If you know a lot about Cuba's history and how Castro got into power and all that he went through to get into power. If you really like Cuba's history this is the book for you.
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“New York Times reporter Mirta Ojito melds the personal with the political in a moving account of her familyÂ's departure from Cuba.” —People
In this unforgettable memoir, Pulitzer PrizeÂ-winning journalist Mirta Ojito travels back twenty-five years to the event that brought her and 125,000 of her fellow Cubans to America: the 1980 mass exodus known as the Mariel boatlift. As she tracks down the long-forgotten individuals whose singular actions that year profoundly affected thousands on both sides of the Florida straits, she offers a mesmerizing glimpse behind CubaÂ's iron curtain—and recalls the reality of being a sixteen-year-old torn between her familyÂ's thirst for freedom and a revolution that demanded absolute loyalty. Recounting an immensely important chapter in the ever-evolving relationship between America and its neighbor to the south, Finding Mañana is a major triumph by one of our finest journalists.
“In this wonderful memoir, Ojito ransoms herself from the seductions of nostalgia and reclaims instead the beleageured Cuba of her childhood.”
—The New York Times
Customer Reviews:
I loved this book!.......2006-08-29
Finding Manana was one of the best books I've ever read! Written by a New York Times journalist, Finding Manana is very well written. Sixteen when she and her family left Cuba for Miami during the 1980 Mariel boatlift, Mirta Ojito provides fascinating insight into what life was like growing up in a counter-revolutionary family in 1970s Cuba. The writer has an superb eye for detail. For anyone interested in Cuban history and the 1980 Mariel boatlift, this book is a must!
Finding Manana.......2006-08-25
I chose to read Finding Manana: A memoir of a Cuban Exodus. My father fled communist Cuba and its history has always fascinated me. I enjoyed every page of this book and it was hard for me to put it down because I loved the author's natural style and interesting topics. Although I have a special interest in Cuban history, I believe that anyone who enjoys reading historical non-fiction, would find this novel to be interesting. Finding Manana is a touching story about a young girl trying to find her identity where it is most difficult; in a communist country.
In this bold memoir, Mirta Ojito describes her family's life as gusanos, or worms, in Cuba. This was a term used by the Cuban government to categorize political dissenters. Ojito describes the embarrassing and harsh abuse people who did not support Castro received and illustrates why so many Cubans wanted to leave their country. In great detail, Ojito recalls the day of Castro's speech which all of Havana was expected to attend. Since her family did not believe in Castro's ways and did not support him, they skipped the rally and hid in their apartment for the night. The next morning, when they walked outside they found eggs that had been thrown at their apartment and neighbors yelling hateful words. Through Ojito's personal stories like that, it is easier to understand why so many Cubans left the country they loved so much.
Ojito not only shares her personal story of how she escaped communist Cuba, but she also tells stories of others trying to get out and those attempting to aid them. One story she writes about is that of Hector Sanyustiz, a bus driver so determined to leave Cuba he drove his bus into the gates of the Peruvian Embassy in Havana in hopes of receiving immunity. Soon after Sanyustiz's stunt, over 10,000 people sought asylum in that same Embassy. Ojito writes through many different points of view from the starving people who refuse to move, scared that the Cuban police will trick them out of the Embassy and place them in jail, to the Cuban political figures that work with Castro and try to figure out what to do with all those desperate to leave the country. Another person Ojito discusses is Captain Mike Howell, one of the generous Americans helping to bring back Cuban refugees on his ship. Through this character, Ojito shows how those who have never had to live without freedom often take it for granted. This novel is very humbling for those who believe life in America is difficult or unfair.
Ojito's style is very natural and although she is a reporter, she has the talent of being able to get facts across without being tedious. In Ojito's stories, she educates the reader as well as keeps him entertained and interested. She is able to blend her reporter style with her emotional style in this story making a perfect balance between knowledge and experience. This novel explains many things about communist Cuba and its society many would not know unless they lived through it.
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This survey of current issues and controversies in environmental policy and management is unique in its thematic mix, broad coverage of key debates and approaches, and in-depth analysis of concepts treated less thoroughly in other texts. The contributing authors, all distinguished scholars or practitioners, offer a comprehensive examination of key topics in environmental governance today, including perspectives from environmental economics, democratic theory, public policy, law, political science, and public administration. Environmental Governance Reconsidered is the first book to integrate these wide-ranging topics and perspectives thematically in one volume.
Many are calling for a change in the bureaucratic, adversarial, technology-based regulatory approach that is the basis for much environmental policy -- a move from "rule-based" to "results-based" regulation. Each of the thirteen chapters in Environmental Governance Reconsidered critically examines one aspect of this "second generation" of environmental reform, assesses its promise-versus-performance to date, and points out future challenges and opportunities. The first section of the book, "Reconceptualizing Purpose," discusses the concepts of sustainability, global interdependence, the precautionary principle, and common pool resource theory. The second section, "Reconnecting with Stakeholders," examines deliberative democracy, civic environmentalism, environmental justice, property rights and regulatory takings, and environmental conflict resolution. The final section, "Redefining Administrative Rationality," analyzes devolution, regulatory flexibility, pollution prevention, and third-party environmental management systems auditing. This book will benefit students, scholars, managers, natural resource specialists, policymakers, and reformers and is ideal for class adoption.
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Predatory Bureaucracy is the definitive history of America's wolves and our policies toward predators. Tracking wolves from Coronado's day to the present, author Michael Robinson shows that their story merges with that of the U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey. This federal agency was chartered to research insects and birds but—because of various pressures—-morphed into a political powerhouse operating wildlife--extermination programs.
Drawing on deep research and wide reading, Robinson's vivid narrative follows the wolves from the eras of explorers, mountain men, and bounty hunters through the wolves' 120-year entanglement with the federal government. He shares the parallel story of the Survey's rise, detailing the personal and political forces that allowed extermination programs to continue—despite opposition from hunters, animal lovers, scientists, environmentalists, and presidents—though the agency's mission and even its name changed several times. Federal predator control nearly eliminated wolves throughout the United States and Mexico and radically changed American lands and wildlife populations.
The story Michael Robinson tells in Predatory Bureaucracy will fascinate readers interested in wildlife, nature, agriculture, and environmental politics.
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Thorough - - but loses the forest for the trees.......2007-08-20
This book is a highly-regarded study of the extermination of wolves in the US West over the last century. Unfortunately, I'm unable to give it as high a rating as the other reviewers. Certainly Robinson knows his material and he has given us an exhaustive story of how the Bureau of Biological Survey (BBS) and other agencies exterminated the wolf.
Unfortunately, the narrative is not only exhaustive but exhausting. Robinson has given us too much, and culled too little, to make for a compelling story. The basic structure is clear enough: cattlemen cleared out bison and put cattle in their place on the open range; wolves found cattle (and sheep) easy prey; cattlemen and other settlers organized to eliminate wolves; a scientific agency in the federal government found an opportunity to grow powerful by providing the service of wolf extermination to a wide constituency instead of doing science for a narrow constituency; and even after eliminating wolves, the BBS moved to kill other species, which it continues to do today (under a different name). Thanks to its political allies, the BBS resisted all attempts to rein it in, though the Endangered Species Act has slowed it down.
That could have been a six-chapter story. One might have expanded it to perhaps twelve chapters, to allow for changes in the players and their actions over time. Unfortunately, Robinson gives us 27 chapters. We meet a lot of individuals, whether scientists, politicians, stockmen, administrators, bounty hunters, or wolves. But Robinson tries too hard to be thorough, so we meet too many of these characters.
I realize that professional historians generally value this kind of definitive treatment of a subject, and this book certainly provides a definitive history of the wolf extermination program. More implicitly than explicitly, it raises serious questions about the complicity of government in despoiling the environment instead of protecting it. Robinson's analysis of the political support coalition behind a very destructive agency could lead any earnest young environmentalist to despair.
Even admitting all that, the book would have been better had it been shorter.
HOWLING TO THE CHOIR: .......2006-08-30
Wolves in the West from Rout to Reintroduction
by Wayne Sheldrake, Author of "Instant Karma: the Heart and Soul of a Ski Bum"
It takes a little romance to feel a kinship with wolves, but to become involved in the process of their protection and reintroduction one has to be practical. Michael Robinson, an avowed wolf activist is a practical romantic. Predatory Bureaucracy: The Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West keeps the wilderness poetics to a minimum and lets the history, legislation and law of extinction speak for itself.
In a story that is part tragedy and part epic, the power of his tale lies in the character and flaws, of wolves and men. The enemies of wolves, trappers and hunters motivated by bounties or salaries, are portrayed as outdoorsmen of perseverance and skill, men who often admired their enemies even as they killed them. Wolves, though decidedly disadvantaged and obviously doomed, are remembered as insightful and tough (undeniably killers too). The heroes among them knew the individual scent and habits of their human torturers.
From Robinson's long perspective, the true villain of extermination was the triumvirate of environmental holocaust, federal bureaucracy and poison. The quick demise of the buffalo caused wolves serious problems. Abandoned carcasses were an irresistible boon and wolves proliferated. (29) When the free range--literally free: no grazing fees, no fences, no railroads, yet--was repopulated with cattle, wolves did what wolves do. Stockgrowers associations offered bounties, pressing counties and states to do the same. (30-31) But hunters and trappers went where bounties were highest, and they let pups mature until they were worth money. (64) Wolves bounced back, until a system emerged that compensated for the limitations of commercial cooperation, local government, and human nature.
In 1905, the new Forest Service "enacted" grazing fees. Cattleman immediately demanded protection from wolves. (51) About that time, the federal Bureau of Biological Survey was looking for ways to fund scientific projects. (63) They saw they could provide a service by quashing criticism that the FS provided wolves sanctuary, (78) and offering stockmen--very influential constituents of Congress (53)--"a more centralized system" of efficiently poisoning "`noxious animals'." (66) Robinson gives the Biological Survey a face, Stanley P. Young, master-trapper turned Uber-bureaucrat. Young cast wolves as "criminals." (155) He presented slide shows on poisoning to annual stockgrowers meetings and conventions. (155) He solicited annual contributions to the agency from states, counties and "local ranching associations." (164) He reported successes: 25 wolves killed in 1921 (153); 19 dead in 1922. (157) He also contended with little or no opposition. (Robinson includes an interesting chapter that explains the inaction of women's organizations, the American Bison Society, Aldo Leopold and Enos Mills.) When the wolves were gone, he deftly shifted the blame and the bureaucracy flourished, killing coyotes.
Here the book embarks on a complex and innervating odyssey. A new kind of hero, and, paradoxically, a new kind of bureaucracy emerge. Into the late Twenties, conservationists complained internally that the loss of wolves was a loss to science; and predators, they had observed, helped prevent the spread of disease among ungulates and rodents, and controlled populations. (181-182) Young responded by cleansing agency terminology. "Extermination" became "control." (198) In 1930, 148 scientists signed a letter protesting widespread poisoning. (212) F.D.R. tried to cut the BS budget in '31. (257) Congress reversed the cuts. (260) He appointed a critic as Chief. Poisoning continued. (264-268) By 1945, the agency had a new name, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and had adopted new poisons (coyotes spit out strychnine) and aerial gunning. (297) These were seminal years in the development of the practice (and personality!) of conservation activists.
Rosalie Barrow Edge, a lifetime member of the Audubon Society, was "appalled" when she learned the Society turned its head from the BS's poisoning of magpies (246) because the birds ate coyote baits. (169-177) She filed "what may have been the first private citizen environmental lawsuit," and won. (247) William Hornaday, who had fought to save the last bison, shared his mailing list (249), and she helped found the Emergency Conservation Committee, which supported the formation of wilderness, the "removal of all livestock from National Forests," (249) and "indicted `wholesale poisoning and trapping operations'." (250) The committees mass mailings were written by scientists.
Times and minds changed. The scientific work of mammologists like Joseph Grinell and his student E. Raymond Hall came to bear. Aldo Leopold, a former wolf killer, connected the preservation of predators to the preservation of land. (298) Even the founder of the BS "[came] out against the poisoning program." (251) Finally, Stuart Udall became Secretary of the Interior and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring aroused public concern over the impact of poisoning on humans in the early sixties. Still, the institution of poisoning wasn't collared until Nixon banned it in 1972. The ban was disarmed by Ford, Carter and Reagan (327, 329), but by then the Endangered Species Act was law. Though it didn't forbid poisoning per se, it outlawed "any action that would doom a listed species, including destroying its habitat." (323) The Act also gave citizens the right to sue for failure to enforce and mandated reintroduction. In 1986, when the EPA tried to "reauthorize...strychnine for rodent control" Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club sued. (330)
Robinson spends the remainder of the book recounting wolf reintroduction based on the tradition of legal activism and concessions. Wolves were returned to Idaho, Yellowstone and the Southwest amidst the opposition of equally active western ranchers. In Yellowstone, Defenders of Wildlife "promised to reimburse ranchers for the cost of livestock killed or injured by wolves." (341) and wolves "known to be preying livestock" were shot from "planes and helicopter." Still, by 2005, "over 900 wolves roamed Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana," and a few wandered to Washington, Oregon, Utah, and Colorado. (346) Reintroduction in the Southwest was bitter, violent and disappointing. Over three years, the population remained static at 27 wolves. (363)
Robinson's polemic against bureaucracy is strong. The history of the BS as a policy-maker operating as a service at the beck and call of a powerful political constituency puzzles together the zeitgeist, backroom politics, and scientific exchange of the times through the remarkably frank letters and memos of the principals. There's less voice, and less depth to more recent personalities, when the research relies primarily on published statements, news reports, and legal briefs.
The writing is most compelling in the early history of the west, when the individual character of wolves--their heroic escapes, their family loyalties, their tragic ends--packs the narrative with drama and grief. Hunters are masterfully juxtaposed as men whom, though diabolically skilled, possessed wild, near-meditative wolf-wit. Trapping wolves was so difficult (and dangerous to livestock) that poisons came to the fore, but even poisoning a wolf took insight that a naturalist would envy.
Robinson's captive audience, wolf lovers, will be rapt with the epic martyrdom of a species, and they may be agitated to tactical, practical action. Reintroduction opponents might be moved to reexamine the grim history of a bureaucracy that exceeded the viciousness of its prey.
I recommend this book for anyone concerned with the environment........2005-12-29
I recommend this book for anyone concerned with the environment and the effect of government policies on the environment. It is an impressive, well-written scholarly work. It traces national and local policies toward (against) wolves from the mid-19th century to the present. The research is thorough and extensive. It demonstrates a profound understanding of the relationship between government and land-owners and the implications of policies for the ecology of the Western U.S. It includes an unprecedented detailed count of the wolves, coyotes, and livestock killed since 1878. The writing is beautiful. For example, on page 4, Robinson writes: "In fall the crisp weather turned aspen leaves yellow, and the first wisps of snow wafted in like unhurried emissaries from a season the hard, cold ground had never quite forgotten." This is a ground-breaking work.
Pearl Katz, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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