Adios Havana

Havana . . . lilting rumbas café con leche sultry sea breezes. Sparkling white beaches by day scintillating nightclubs after dark. This sophisticated international capital was the crown jewel of an island paradise-until the idealism that fed the Cuban Revolution yielded a nightmare of soul-crushing dictatorship.Adios Havana is a true account of romance and peril adventure and patriotism. Fueled by love-love of family of country and of each other-a young couple must face the most wrenching of choices: remain in the country they cherish lose the wealth and position their families strove for generations to attain and watch their children grow up impoverished under a terrifying regime; or risk escaping with no money or possessions and leave behind all they have ever known to begin a new life in a strange land.A legacy to future generations this memoir is intended to remind readers of the fragility of freedom . . . to describe the disintegration of a prosperous civilized society and offer counsel on how to prevent a similar catastrophe from happening in America . . . and to show how and why penniless refugees flourish in the land of the free-why anyone who resists oppression would be driven to tell his beloved homeland Adios.