AS Quoted in The Miami Herald

I was quoted a few days ago in a sidebar article in The Miami Herald about the effort to have William Morgan´s remains repatriated to the United States. As is usually the case, my lengthy answers were reduced to a couple of soundbites. (Not a complaint, just a fact.) In a subsequent post, I will publish my full answers to the questions that were asked by The Miami Herald reporter.

The lead article to the sidebar was about the discovery of a hard copy of the final letter that William Morgan wrote to his mother just before he was executed. The content of the letter was published in newspapers at the time, so there is nothing new there. However, in a dramatic if minor twist, it turns out the paper copy of the letter itself has been tucked away among the belongings of former UPI reporter, Henry Ramont.

For those who aren´t familiar with it, my book The Americano: Fighting with Castro for Cuba´s Freedom is about the life and death of William Morgan who fought with the Rebels in Cuba against the dictator, Fulgencio Batista. Morgan was one of two non-Cuban majors in the Rebel Army. The other was the famous -- and infamous -- Che Guevara.

It is a story about a man´s courage to reinvent himself in another country and about the international politics and intrigue that got him killed. Click here to read a pretty good review of the book by reporter and writer Richard Cummings.