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In Whose Man in Havana? the author offers an unconventional, often dark, but more often hilarious view of diplomacy in settings as varied as Haiti, London, the Dominican Republic, the Balkans, Palestine, Paraguay, Guyana, and Kyrgyzstan, including covert monitoring of Soviet military operations in Cuba on behalf of the CIA with the blessing of President Kennedy and Prime Minister Pearson.In a career that spans the Canadian foreign service and international organizations, he was fortunate to be in the right place at interesting, if turbulent, times. Throughout the book he has focussed on the lighter side of people and places, but almost everywhere the dark side intrudes. Graham makes plain that the intersection of the two is frequently black comedy.
Contents
Foreword
Robert Bothwell
PrefaceBook One
Dominican Republic
Voyage to a Different Planet
Leopold's List
Darkness at Noon
The Dictator's Sarcophagus
"Down with Those Who Rise"
Navidad con Libertad
Meatballs, Moose Piss, and the National Day
Cuba
Whose Man in Havana?
United Kingdom
The Thames, Bunnies, and Bicycles
Japan
Sake and the Advancement of Cultural Diplomacy
Guyana
Caviar and Christmas Trees
The Phantom Saboteur
Alcide
Three-Piece
"Will the Dynamite Explode if I . . ."
The State Funeral of the Honourable Linden Forbes Burnham
Suriname
Clothes Make the Man
Jewels of the Forest
Trinidad and Tobago
Me, Mick Jagger, Jungle Fever, and the Legion of Evil
Grenada
Pierre Trudeau and the Embarrassment of a Full Scale American War against a Very Small Island
Haiti
Le Chie est Mort
Central America and Columbia
Go By Boat: Travels with Allan MacEachen
Panama
The General and Margot Fonteyn
Central America
Fireworks and Foreign Policy
Venezuela, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic
A is for Aristide
Between Brazil and Venezuela: Caipirinhas, Trestle Bridges, and Formula One Bus Drivers
Beauty and the Official Beast: The Miss Venezuela Contest
Book Two
Dominican Republic
Stepping Back from the Precipice
Haiti
"The Pencil of God Has No Eraser" I
"The Pencil of God Has No Eraser" II
Bosnia
Black Past, Grey Future?
Sex, Sports, and Diplomacy
The Psychologist, the General, and the Beauty Contest
More Generals and the Ice Cream Man
The Road to Srebrenica
Paraguay
El Supremo
Kyrgyzstan
Boiling Toilets and Fermented Mare's Milk
Guatemala
San Marcos and the Elections of 2003
Venezuela
Hugo Chavez: Much Loved, Much Loathed
Ukraine
Night train to Ternopil
Palestine
Good Elections, Bad Judgement
Nicaragua
The Jaguar Changes Some of Its Spots
El Salvador
Off the Beaten Track
Haiti
Goudeau-Goudeau: Return to Haiti
Lou Quinn: A Profile
Afterward
Notes
Index
