Presentation of October 1962: The ‘Missile’ Crisis as Seen from Cuba, by Tomás Diez, at Pathfinder Press exhibit at Latin American Studies Association (LASA) congress in Dallas, March 17–19. (Left to right) Mary-Alice Waters, President of Pathfinder Press and co-editor of the English-language edition of the book; Jorge Hernández, Director of the University of Havana Center for the Study of the United States and one of the organizers of the October 2002 Havana conference on the 40th anniversary of the "missile" crisis; and Eloise Linger, professor of international relations at State University of New York/Old Westbury, and chair of LASA’s Cuba Section.

Among the nearly 700 panels and related events organized at the congress of academic specialists on Latin America were several discussing the October Crisis. At the workshop on "Putting Cuba Into the Missile Crisis," Peter Kornbluh of the National Security Archive and the main organizer of the U.S. delegation to the 40th anniversary conference in Havana, also recommended the book by Tomás Diez as "the leading work" on the crisis written from the Cuban perspective.

The international congress, which draws more than 4,000 participants, was somewhat smaller than in previous years due to economic conditions in Latin America, the decision by some delegations not to travel to the United States as an act of protest against Washington’s war on the people of Iraq, and the U.S. government’s denial of visas to a number of prominent delegates, especially from Cuba. Participants purchased over $800 in Pathfinder books during the event. The best sellers among them were October 1962: The ‘Missile’ Crisis as Seen from Cuba, Marianas in Combat by Cuban Brig. Gen. Teté Puebla, the story of the Mariana Grajales women’s platoon in Cuba’s Revolutionary War, 1956–58, and the new, expanded edition of Malcolm X Talks to Young People.  
 
 
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