Ann Louise Bardach is a PEN award-winning investigative journalist who has covered Cuba for fifteen years for the" New York Times", "Vanity Fair", and many other national publications. She is the author" Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana" and is the editor of The" Prison Letters of Fidel Castro" and" Cuba: A Travelers Literary Companion". She teaches International Journalism at the University of California at Santa Barbara.