De humos y cenizas

With sarcasm and good humor most of the time and other times with lacerated pain, the author brings us closer to certain episodes and myths in the life of Fidel Castro, one of the darkest and most influential characters on the Latin American political scene in the last decades of the century. XX and early XXI. If traveling from west to east along the island's destroyed highways is already an authentic odyssey in itself, transporting the dictator's ashes from the famous Plaza de la Revolución in the heart of Havana to the Santa Ifigenia cemetery in Santiago de Cuba, depending on luck and mischief to circumvent hunger and recover the ashes that over and over again insisted on disappearing, it was impossible despite all the good intentions of our two protagonists. While El Mono is capable of devising the most bizarre solutions that will help him survive in a country where picaresque has prevailed over morality to deal with everyday life, the well-informed driver will overcome all his fears and will not only guide us to along the road on a journey full of adventures, dangers and misadventures, he will also do so through the personal history of the Cuban dictator to show us a reality that has nothing to do with the official version so well disseminated by communist propaganda. In this hectic parallel race, the narrator seamlessly shows us the intricate twists and turns of the art of survival of a sick society in a country where we will see present, past, reality, wonder, picaresque and humanity intersect and shake hands. Before our stunned eyes, the author will dust off and demystify the exploits of the "Great Man" to put things in their place and once again make true the popular maxim that reminds us that "All that glitters is not gold."