Hotel Fidel Castro: An American's Nine Years in the Cuban Gulag

A lapse in judgment, a terrible storm at sea and bad luck conspired to put American Rick Townson in port in Cuba with hundreds of pounds of marijuana hidden on the boat he helped sail. Arrested and left to the dubious mercy of dictator Fidel Castro's hostile government, a man who had never before been a criminal was forced to spend nine years in the hellholes of the island's prison system. With an eye for the absurdities of captivity, from the jailers' attempts at political "re-education" to the daily battle against rats and hunger, Townson candidly tells the story of his ordeal in HOTEL FIDEL CASTRO, along with the often outrageous tales of other foreigners trapped in the web of Cuba's twisted justice system.

Author: Rick Townson
Publisher: La Condesa Press
Published: 12/17/2013
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780989842907

About the Author
Rick Townson lives aboard his sailboat, the Kiki Santana, in the Banana River on Florida's east coast. HOTEL FIDEL CASTRO is his memoir of nine brutal years spent in Cuba's prisons.

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