My Father Wrote Letters to the Cuban Government. Here Is Mine.

Dr. Ferrer is a professor at Princeton University and the author of the forthcoming “Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter.”

Dear President Díaz-Canel:

Maybe you know who I am. A few years ago, I published a history of Cuba and the United States that was based on decades of research on the island. When it won an award, the book was reviewed in your official newspaper, Granma, which said it was good on the nineteenth century but that my interpretation of Fidel Castro’s revolution was questionable.

On that........

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