Ann louise bardach biography of michael

  • Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana · Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana · The Prison Letters of Fidel.
  • The German industrialist Klaus-Michael Kuehne, born in 1937, is one of the richest people in the world, with more money than Ken Griffin, or MacKenzie Scott.
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    Ann Louise Bardach

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      THE BILLIONAIRE’S SECRET

      I. A DIRTY BUSINESS

      On a Thursday afternoon in mid-November 2023, an elderly man was walking through Hamburg’s Ohlsdorf Cemetery, the world’s fourth-largest graveyard, to visit the burial place of his favorite soccer player when he noticed something very wrong. Someone had sprayed “Nazi Kapital” (“Nazi fortune”) on the Kuehne family’s tombstone, in red and black, while the cryptic term “M-Aktion” was tagged on Alfred Kuehne’s tombstone.

      These weren’t just any family tombs: The Kuehne dynasty is industrial royalty in Germany. Klaus-Michael Kuehne, the only child of Alfred and Mercedes Kuehne, is the country’s wealthiest person, with a fortune estimated at $44 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The 87-year-old billionaire owes his fortune to Kuehne + Nagel, the world’s largest freight forwarder, founded by Kuehne’s grandfather and Friedrich Nagel in 1890. Kuehne has used his wealth to build up a global transportation empire. He is a

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      Fidel Castro wept on several occasions after receiving a colostomy that saved his life, and the cigar-loving Cuban dictator sometimes uses an oxygen chamber, reports Ann Louise Bardach in her new book, After Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington, according to a rave review by the Associated Press.

      Bardach, who will be among the more than 300 authors at this year’s Miami Book Fair International, is also the author of Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana, one of the Los Angeles’ Times Ten Best Books of the year in 2002, and Cuba: A Traveler’s Literary Companion, among others books.

      A veteran journalist, Bardach has also reported on Mexico, women in Islamic countries and foreign policy for Vanity Fair, Slate, and numerous magazines, newspapers and TV.

      Laura Wides-Munoz, AP Hispanic Affairs Writer, praises Bardach’s ability “to weave together the personal and the political, bringing to life the complex h