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Operation Uighur Freedom is the last chapter in a tetralogy of historical fiction books about the life and adventures of Ralph Martínez, one of the 1, 400 Cuban children sent to the U.S. by his parents under a program called Pedro Pan.In this sequel to Operation Melting Wall, Ralph, now retired from CIA covert operations, is living in Cleveland with his wife Marlene, running his successful oriental rug business. During a rug buying trip to Uru...

I wanted to know why a number of revolutions had occurred in the Western Hemisphere during a half century timeframe.I was also curious about the Russian Revolution and wondered if it had any similarity with the revolutions in the Americas. I tried to present the Russian Revolution as the sequential biographies of four men: Marx, Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. Then I got to the start of World War II and kept on reading and writing. How did the Sovi...

It is widely acknowledged that Congo became an East- West battlefield during the first half of the decade of the 1960s, yet the participation of Cuban exiles in the struggles is rarely noted

In this sequel to Mule Train to Afghanistan, Ralphs new assignment, takes him to East Europe during the height of the Cold War. His life remains complicated and fast paced. The CIA has established teams to prepare East Europe countries for the eventual fall of the Iron Curtain. Ralph is assigned to the Romania team, which turns out to be the Soviet satellite to undergo the most violent transition. CIA operatives handling the Romania project ar...

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It is widely acknowledged that Congo became an East- West battlefield during the first half of the decade of the 1960s, yet the participation of Cuban exiles in the struggles is rarely noted. In this absorbing volume Villafana details the contribution made by Cuban exiles to the preservation of democracy in Congo. When Congo was given its independence by Belgium in 1960, most of its people believed their new government had been installed by th...

In the sequel to Rice with Mango, Ralph, now a CIA operative, finds himself in the middle of the Cold War. Traveling to China to purchase oriental rugs for his shop in Ohio, he knows that he has traveled far from his first flight out of Cuba. In this historical work of fiction, set in the early 1980¿s, Afghanistan has been invaded by the Soviet Union. The CIA covert program to support the mujahedeen, is getting serious Congressional scrutiny. ...