Introduction
Recent Miami riots are a grim reminder of the one hundred thirty thousand Cuban refugees who, fresh off the Freedom Flotilla, found America to be less than the land of milk and honey. Frustrated young men plundered and burned, venting disillusionment and the sadness of Castro's refusal to accept them back into Cuba.
To lessen the threat of another Miami disaster, the refugees have been siphoned off into scattered army bases across the states, in hopes of finding sponsors to help them acclimate themselves to the community.
But American zenophobia shows itself best when promises of welfare benefits to foreigners are whispered behind closed door meetings, and irate tax payers are reminded it is their hard earned cash that will be feeding a mouth that can't even speak English.
Such was the case in an uptight Baptist community in Kansas when four thousand five hundred refugees descended upon the army base. The town of Lawrence went beserk with paranoia.
A Nordic do-gooder by the name of Colonel Leo Nelson and his Cuban born wife Cora, courageously combatted the anti-Cuban forces led by the loquacious Mayor Dillon who was dead set against feeding illiterates who couldn't even sign a welfare check. The Federal Sponsorship Program sparked a chism between military power versus small town politics ... until the frustrated, frightened Mayor, confronted with explaining the shortage of welfare funds, resorted to violence.
Cuban Wives is the story of how Cora Nelson became the tool of Mayor Dillon's regime to starve out the Cubans. Rape, extortion, fraud .. the man would stop at nothing to drive the welfare seekers from his town. His vengeful plot, aimed at Colonel Nelson's lovely Cuban wife, unravels a story of intrigue, suspense and hot-paced action promising to titillate the spark of sadism in all of us.