Ann Louise Bardach

editor-at-large for Los Angeles Magazine

Guest

Author and journalist Ann Louise Bardach has covered Miami, Florida, and Cuba for many years, as a former contributor to the Daily Beast. She is the author of several books, including Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana and Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington, and the editor of The Prison Letters of Fidel CastroShe is also a member of the KCRW Advisory Board

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After  yesterday's landing in Cuba , just 90 miles from American shores, President Obama spoke at the newly reopened US embassy.

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