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This shocking memoir by the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas is a book about sexual, political and artistic freedom. In Before Night Falls, Arenas recounts his journey from a poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba to his death in New York four decades later. He tells of his odyssey from young rebel fighting for the Revolution, through his suppression as a writer, his disillusionment with Castro, his imprisonment and torture, to his eventual flight from Cuba. Now a feature film starring Javier Bardem and Johnny Depp, Before Night Falls is a stunning testament to an individual?s urge to create aga.

The protection and conservation of rivers inside protected areas and aquifer recharges are of great importance in Colombia and one of the major commitments of the government, since surface water bodies usually originate in these ecosystems. Such systems therefore offer goods and services of water supply to large cities. The Santuario de Fauna y Flora Iguaque (SFFI) is a protected area of the Colombian Andean region composed of paramo and Andean forest ecosystems. The area, which provides water to both rural and urban communities, is managed by Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia (National Natural Parks of Colombia). In order to determine the ecological quality of the Mamarramos micro-basin, the CERA-S protocol (Simplified Ecological Quality for Andean Rivers) was applied. This tool integrates hydro-morphological quality with biotic index ABI. Three samplings were performed during dry season (October, November, and December 2015) in 10 sampling sites along the brooks of Carrizal, Francos, and Mamarramos. Obtained results qualify the micro-basin as a system in excellent state, thus providing valuable information for political and community leaders to make decisionsto conserve and prevent the detriment of the ecosystem due to anthropic activities. ; La protección y conservación de los ríos en zonas de reserva y recarga de acuíferos en Colombia es de vitalimportancia y uno de los principales compromisos del gobierno, debido a que en estos ecosistemas se formancuerpos hídricos, que ofrecen bienes y servicios, asociados al suministro de agua para las principales ciudades.El Santuario de Fauna y Flora Iguaque (SFFI) es un área protegida de la región andina colombiana, que presentaecosistemas de páramo y bosque andino. Es administrado por Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia(PNN) y provee de agua a comunidades urbanas y rurales en su zona de influencia. Para determinar la calidadecológica de la microcuenca Mamarramos se realizó un monitoreo, en el que se aplicó el protocolo CERA-S(Calidad Ecológica de Ríos ...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Indigenous Society and Conquest -- Christopher Columbus ''Discovers'' Cuba -- The Devastation of the Indies -- Spanish Officials and Indigenous Resistance. Various Spanish Officials -- A World Destroyed -- ''Transculturation'' and Cuba -- Survival Stories -- II Sugar, Slavery, and Colonialism -- A Physician's Notes on Cuba -- The Death of the Forest -- Autobiography of a Slave -- Biography of a Runaway Slave -- Fleeing Slavery -- Santiago de Cuba's Fugitive Slaves -- Rumba -- The Trade in Chinese Laborers -- Life on a Coffee Plantation -- Cuba's First Railroad -- The Color Line -- Abolition! -- Cecilia Valdés -- Sab -- An Afro-Cuban Poet -- III The Struggle for Independence -- Freedom and Slavery -- Memories of a Cuban Girl -- José Martí's ''Our America'' -- Guantanamera -- The Explosion of the Maine. New York Journal -- U.S. Cartoonists Portray Cuba -- The Devastation of Counterinsurgency. Fifty-fifth Congress, Second Session -- IV Neocolonialism -- The Platt Amendment -- Imperialism and Sanitation -- A Child of the Platt Amendment -- Spain in Cuba -- The Independent Party of Color. El Partido Independiente de Color -- A Survivor -- Rachel's Song -- Honest Women -- Generals and Doctors -- A Crucial Decade -- Afrocubanismo and Son -- Drums in My Eyes -- Abakuá -- The First Wave of Cuban Feminism -- Life at the Mill -- Migrant Workers in the Sugar Industry -- The Cuban Counterpoint -- The Invasion of the Tourists -- Waiting Tables in Havana -- The Brothel of the Caribbean -- A Prostitute Remembers -- Sugarcane -- Where Is Cuba Headed? -- The Chase -- The Fall of Machado -- Sugar Mills and Soviets -- The United States Confronts the 1933 Revolution -- The Political Gangster -- The United Fruit Company in Cuba -- Cuba's Largest Inheritance. Bohemia -- The Last Call -- For Us, It Is Always the 26th of July -- Three Comandantes Talk It Over -- History Will Absolve Me -- Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War -- The United States Rules Cuba, 1952–1958 -- The Cuban Story in the New York Times -- V Building a New Society -- And Then Fidel Arrived -- Tornado -- Castro Announces the Revolution -- How the Poor Got More -- Fish à la Grande Jardinière -- Women in the Swamps -- Man and Socialism -- In the Fist of the Revolution -- The Agrarian Revolution -- 1961: The Year of Education -- The Literacy Campaign -- The ''Rehabilitation'' of Prostitutes -- The Family Code -- Homosexuality, Creativity, Dissidence -- The Original Sin -- Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing -- Silence on Black Cuba -- Black Man in Red Cuba -- Post-modern Maroon in the Ultimate Palenque -- From Utopianism to Institutionalization -- Carlos Puebla Sings about the Economy -- VI Culture and Revolution -- Caliban -- For an Imperfect Cinema -- Dance and Social Change -- Revolutionary Sport -- Mea Cuba -- In Hard Times -- The Virgin of Charity of Cobre, Cuba's Patron Saint -- A Conversation on Santería and Palo Monte -- The Catholic Church and the Revolution -- Havana's Jewish Community -- VII The Cuban Revolution and the World -- The Venceremos Brigades -- The Cuban Revolution and the New Left -- The U.S. Government Responds to Revolution. Foreign Relations of the United States -- Castro Calls on Cubans to Resist the Counterrevolution -- Operation Mongoose -- Offensive Missiles on That Imprisoned Island -- Inconsolable Memories: A Cuban View of the Missile Crisis -- The Assassination Plots Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities -- Cuban Refugee Children -- From Welcomed Exiles to Illegal Immigrants -- Wrong Channel -- We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? -- City on the Edge -- Singing for Nicaragua -- Cuban Medical Diplomacy -- VIII The ''Período Especial'' and the Future of the Revolution -- Silvio Rodríguez Sings of the Special Period -- From Communist Solidarity to Communist Solitary -- The Revolution Turns Forty -- Colonizing the Cuban Body -- Pope John Paul II Speaks in Cuba -- Emigration in the Special Period -- The Old Man and the Boy -- Civil Society -- Forty Years Later -- A Dissident Speaks Out -- One More Assassination Plot -- An Errand in Havana -- No Turning Back for Johnny -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Acknowledgment of Copyrights -- Index