Cuba, Miami & Fidel
A.L. Bardach was called "the go-to journalist on all things Cuban and Miami” by the Columbia Journalism Review, having interviewed dozens of key players including Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, Juanita Castro, anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles, CIA and Watergate plumber E. Howard Hunt, anti-Castro militant Orlando Bosch and CIA operative Felix Rodriguez, present for the assassination of Che Guevara.
Plot On Castro Spotlights A Powerful Group: New York Times (07/12/1998)
A Bomber's Tale, Part 1: Sidebar: New York Times (07/12/1998)
A Bomber's Tale, Part 2: New York Times (07/13/1998)
Cuban Exile Leader Among 7 Accused of Plot on Castro: New York Times (08/26/1998)
A Boy, a Dad, A Tug of War: Sound Familiar?: Washington Post (01/09/2000)
The Cast of Characters in a Family Melodrama: Los Angeles Times (01/30/2000)
Winners, Losers of the Elian Saga: Los Angeles Times (04/09/2000)
The Dirty Realism of New Cuban Fiction: Los Angeles Times (03/18/2001)
My Dinner with Fidel: Los Angeles Times (07/21/2002)
Raging at a Lion in Twilight: Los Angeles Times (08/24/2002)
Restraint Saved the Day in 1962: Los Angeles Times (10/27/2002)
Spying for the Revolution: Los Angeles Times (05/11/2003)
Bush Passes On Cuban Exiles' Right: Los Angeles Times (10/26/2003)
Spies Among Them: Havana and Miami, United by Distrust: Washington Post (01/25/2004)
A Cuban Emigre Looks at the Revolution: Washington Post (02/15/2004)
Our Man’s in Miami. Patriot or Terrorist?: Washington Post (04/17/2005)
Three Ways Bush Makes Castro Happy: Los Angeles Times (04/24/2005)
Marielitos and the Changing of Miami: Los Angeles Times (06/19/2005)
For One Marine, Torture Came Home: Los Angeles Times (02/12/2006)
Cuba at the Crossroads: Books on the Brothers Castro and an Epidemic of Suicides: Washington Post (2/12/2006)
High Fidelity: Was a Reporter in the Tank for Tyrant?: Washington Post (07/02/2006)
Portrait of the Maximum Leader: New York Times (08/13/2006)
Miami Vice: Why the FBI is Coming After Me: Washington Post (11/12/2006)
Love, Fidel: Letters From Prison - Fidel Revealed: Washington Post (02/25/2007)
Fidel Castro's Long Goodbye: Los Angeles Times (11/13/2009)
The Sugar King of Havana: Washington Post (08/15/2010)
As Obama makes history over Cuba, will the Castros be the real winners? The Guardian (12/21/2014)
Why Are Cubans So Special: New York Times (01/31/2015)
A Purge With a Purpose: New York Times (01/31/2015)
Book review: ‘José Martí: A Revolutionary Life,’ by Alfred J. López: The Washington Post (02/05/2015)
Fidel, Raul & Obama: Backlash In Cuba: Politico (06/10/2016)
‘Glory and my place in history do not worry me’: my interview with Fidel Castro: The Guardian (11/27/2016)