Politics 2005

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Frente: The Next Generation

In Harlot's Ghost, his epic novel about the CIA, Norman Mailer vividly brings to life events leading to the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961. In recalling the ill-fated invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro exiles, Mailer meshes his own fictional characters such as CIA agent Harry Hubbard with true-to-life Castro opponents such as Toto Barbero and Mario Garcia Kohly, both followers of deposed Cuban strongman Fulgencio Batista, and Manuel Ray, erstwhile Castro man who had grown disappointed after his hero took power and ruled as a dictator. Together, they formed the Frente-the anti-Castrocoalition that would serve as the new government in Cuba had "Bumpy Roads" (the …