{"id":44701,"date":"2018-11-27T11:12:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T16:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=44701"},"modified":"2018-11-20T07:09:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T12:09:24","slug":"this-is-cuba-an-american-journalist-under-castros-shadow-by-david-ariosto-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/this-is-cuba-an-american-journalist-under-castros-shadow-by-david-ariosto-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Cuba: An American Journalist under Castro\u2019s Shadow by David Ariosto [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-44618\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/This-Is-Cuba-David-Ariosto-BookDragon-518x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/This-Is-Cuba-David-Ariosto-BookDragon-518x800.jpg 518w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/This-Is-Cuba-David-Ariosto-BookDragon.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/>For a self-described \u201cyoung American photojournalist who then boasted only pidgin Spanish,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidariosto.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">David Ariosto<\/a>\u2019s arrival in Havana in 2009 on assignment for CNN was \u201cthe chance of a lifetime.\u201d Determined to be \u201csomehow different from those pink-faced tourists,\u201d he\u2019s quickly reduced to an epithet, <em>yuma<\/em>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0street slang for \u201cgringo.\u201d A year and a half later, he\u2019s \u201cready to leave \u2013\u00a0forever, [he] thought,\u201d disenchanted with food shortages (shopping is an all-day ordeal), housing (a sink used in the morning disappears by afternoon), and being watched (\u201ctrust was at a premium\u201d). He quickly \u201ccome[s] to loathe\u201d the catchall nonsensical phrase used to explain \u201cthe unexplainable\u201d: \u201cThis is Cuba.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beyond professional opportunities \u2013 interviewing dissident blogger Yo\u00e1ni Sanchez, following Cuban doctors through Haiti\u2019s 2010 earthquake aftermath, covering political-prisoner releases<em>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/em>negotiating daily life overshadows his \u201cfantasies.\u201d Departing, however, doesn\u2019t sever island ties; unprecedented historical events, including presidential shifts in both Cuba and the U.S., engender return trips.<\/p>\n<p>Despite repetition and disjointedness (some chapters seem like separate essays), Ariosto\u2019s insights are plentiful, and amid erratically evolving Cuba-U.S. relations, such personal perspectives, even from a <em>yuma<\/em>, provide the best portals to mutual understanding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/This-Is-Cuba-An-American-Journalist-under-Castro-s-Shadow-David-Ariosto\/pid=9709448\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Nonfiction,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, November 15, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a self-described \u201cyoung American photojournalist who then boasted only pidgin Spanish,\u201d David Ariosto\u2019s arrival in Havana in 2009 on assignment for CNN was \u201cthe chance of a lifetime.\u201d Determined to be \u201csomehow different from those pink-faced tourists,\u201d he\u2019s quickly reduced to an epithet, yuma\u00a0\u2013\u00a0street&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6775,107,20,6535],"tags":[6608,6668,22,59,8155,11,68,24,8154,173],"class_list":["post-44701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-cuban","category-memoir","category-nonfiction","category-repost","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-civil-rights","tag-cultural-exploration","tag-david-ariosto","tag-friendship","tag-haves-vs-have-nots","tag-historical","tag-this-is-cuba","tag-travel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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