Are you familiar with FReeper Jeff Head's five-book future-oriented fictional series, Dragon's Fury?
Just a little piece of info on the plot thread that runs through one of the five volumes: There is a young Cuban man who plays a prominent role as a freedom-fighter in Cuba in the not-too-distant future. Bet you can't guess his name. :)
Although the book is a work of fiction, born of meticulous research so as to make its plot entirely (frighteningly) possible, it provides a little solace for those of us whose hearts still break when we think of Elian. It is somehow comforting to know, even though the salve is applied through a work of fiction, that he achieves through his own efforts what we were unwilling to allow him to achieve when it was within our power to do so.
~ joanie
P.S. Thanks for the latest info on your Taft book. The venerable Ms. Kimes' 'This is simply a wonderful book …. Its scholarship is impeccable, and the tale told is fascinating' is quite a tribute! (I would imagine you are, understandably, still walking about three inches off the ground? :)