Esta es tu casa, Fidel
Carlos Lechuga

NON FICTION | 2024 | 140 pages

A free, real, and dystopian memoir about the recent story of Cuba told by the grandson of a revolutionary.

The recent story of Cuba had never been told so freely. Carlos D. Lechuga is the grandson of one of the revolutionaries who wound up as a UN ambassador and as John Kennedy’s interlocutor during the missile crisis. This is why he has had access to the privileged life of the families close to Fidel or to guests of the regime such as García Márquez.

As a child, he dreamed of the death of his grandfather to be able to see Fidel at the burial. As an adult, he had to go into exile to save his life. The reason was a movie circulating through international film festivals, Santa y Andrés.

This is a real and contemporary dystopia. A book written from the need to tell what he has seen, not as a political stance but as the reverse of a story. In this memoir, Carlos D. Lechuga shares about the Sundays spent in the home of one of the leaders of the Revolution, the everyday fears in a shared house, the discovery of cinema and prohibited sex, encounters with García Márquez, and, above all, about the pain of a broken family.

“Esta es tu casa, Fidel” [This is Your House, Fidel] was the sign put up in houses at the start of the revolution. Much has happened since then, like a Special Period of famine.

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