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NAPLES, Fla., July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- In his new book, "Manolo" (published by AuthorHouse - http://www.authorhouse.com/), Carlos Verdugo follows the true adventures and misadventures of his father, beginning with his immigration from Cuba to the United States during the 1960s. Verdugo uses the tales of Manolo's trials and tribulations to illustrate larger global issues in government, politics, economics and education.

Verdugo begins with Manolo's memories of Cuba before and during the revolution. In one gripping chapter, Manolo reminisces about his fears of being caught with a weapon by the tyrant Batista's men on his way to Verdugo's grandfather's house. "It was quiet common for these men to take you into an alleyway or an empty apartment and shoot you in the back. Many kids were found this way, with their hands tied behind their backs and a bullet in the back of the head. I was taken to a room that had a steel door ... The walls in the room were full of blood stains and so was the floor," Manolo said. Interrogated and beaten, Manolo was convicted of membership in a revolutionary group and sentenced to 30 years in jail.

However, when given the option to stay in a Cuban jail or leave the island forever, Manolo jumped at the chance to emigrate to Florida. "When we arrived at Miami International Airport we were greeted ... [by] a young black man who offered me a sandwich. But before I held it in my hand, he dropped it on the floor. He smiled and said, 'Welcome to America.' I picked up the sandwich."

Manolo's struggles to survive in a new country form the backbone of Verdugo's later arguments regarding politics, education and the shared responsibility for citizens to be conscious of the changes going on around them. "Being conscious is not a matter of opinion; it's a matter of discipline," Verdugo says.

Now a father as well, Verdugo expresses his concerns regarding standardized testing in our schools. "It's a mad rush to the finish line," he says, "[to] build smarter, stronger, and more aggressive children." But Verdugo worries about the effect this assembly-line approach has on the next generation. He asks readers to examine the school systems to decide for themselves whether this method truly teaches children or simply turns them into carbon copies of each other.

Anyone interested in the Cuban revolution or simply the effect one generation has on the politics of the next will be unable to put down "Manolo." Verdugo tells his story first in English, and then translates it into Spanish, allowing readers from both sides of the Gulf of Mexico to immerse themselves in his story. He hopes that his work will begin to change the way we look at politics, religion, war and most of all, economics.

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