Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #898688 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-01
• Original language: Spanish
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 326 pages

Customer Reviews

EXCELENTE LIBRO!
Recomiendo este libro a todo aquel que quiera conocer como es la vida oscura y sucia de la jineteras cubanas. Jineteras es el termino que se usa en la jerga cubana para definir a las prostitutas. Este libro es basado en una investigación minuciosa y en ella se relata de la boca misma de sus protagonistas, osea jineteras, pronextas, policías, fotógrafos ect, de como es la vida y la supervivencia de todo aquel que esta metido de una forma u otra en la prostitución. Un libro impresionante, donde te quedaras con los pelos de punta al leer estas historias que te relatan crudamente la cara oculta de la prostitución en cuba. Lo recomiendo no se arrepentirá!!!

The Sordid World of Socialist Cuba
Jineteras awaits an English translation and in doing so it will make money since the topic is sex. The book is essentially a compilation of case studies of women, very often professional women, who are forced to engage in prostitution in order to survive in Cuban society since they do not belong to the Communist Party. A lot of the material deals with the exploitation by the tourists from Canada, Spain, Mexico and Italy as well as the blackmailing by the lower rank authorities. The book stays away from the politics, thereby avoiding the automatic condemnation that would ensue from the admirers of the regime outside of Cuba, but it is obvious that the intolerable conditions in the country are due to the regime. It is also important to remember that when the dictatorship was in its first couple of decades, it touted itself with having done away with prostitution in the country since according to Marxist dogma, prostitution was the result of capitalist exploitation and the inequality of wealth. How about that. you don't hear that anymore.

MAGNIFICO
Este es un estudio serio, inteligente y doloroso del submundo sordido que ha plagado a Cuba, sobre todo despues del 1990. Hasta los cuentos de hadas se modificaron: Ojala llegara el principe azul (un español con plata, o sin ella, que mas da) se case con la princesa (adolescente sin futuro) y sean felices para siempre en su castillo de oro (y se la lleve de Cuba)
Amir Valle es un escritor magnifico, de pluma fuerte y agallas.