Vibrant and hugely enjoyable ... DePalma is a terrific reporter, with a novelist's eye for detail. He uses the extraordinary trust he has gained from his subjects to paint a vivid, deeply sympathetic picture of Cuban life, and the quiet fortitude of its people Telegraph
Anthony DePalma is the author of City of Dust: Illness, Arrogance and 9/11,The Man Who Invented Fidel and Here: A Biography of the New American Continent. For much of his twenty-two years as a reporter and foreign correspondent for the New York Times, his work focused on Latin America, and he continues to write for the newspaper as well as other publications.