La Habana

By Amir Valle Ojeda

Subjects: History

Description: Throughout the pages of Havana. Gateway to the Americas, published by the Granada publisher AlmED, Amir Valle recounts the history of the Pearl of the Caribbean with the passion of a convicted and confessed habanero, but also with the rigor of the most objective journalist analyzing a reality as hard as it is contradictory. "For all that, in addition to referring to the legends and founding myths of one of the most exciting cities in the world, with which we Spanish maintain a special and very emotional relationship, Amir Valle does a precise dissection of the authentic and true history of the city founded in 1514 by Pánfilo de Narváez, with almost five long centuries of intense and passionate life. Amri Valle's book shows us Havana from the optic of many very different people who, trapped by its magnetism, gave written testimony of their Cuban experience. From the Mafioso, Meyer Lansky, who coined the label "Gateway to the Americas" to Albert Einstein, for whom the capital of Cuba was "the city of surprises.