Raúl Eduardo Chao received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University and, after a brief stint in the industry, he spent 18 years in the academic world as a tenured professor and Director of the Departments of Chemical Engineering at the Universities of Puerto Rico and Detroit. In 1986, he founded a consulting company focused on helping companies and government agencies simultaneously improve the productivity as well as quality of their services. As President of Systema, Chao has written a dozen books on management, science and history of Cuba along with publishing numerous articles in newspapers and magazines. He and his wife Olga live in Lakeland, Florida and spend long periods of time in Paris.

This has to be more than just a nostalgic book. It presents the sad story of a people who lost their freedom because they neglected their democratic traditions. In 1933, Cuba suffered the attacks of a miserable and bloody Revolution that used violence, abuses and murders as part of its political life. Twenty-five years later, with the Castro Revolution of 1959, Cubans collected their retribution for what they had planted in 1933. The story of that experience could be a great lesson for men and women who are seduced by Marxist strategies and ideas of extreme left. But it will not be because no one learns from the mistakes of others. In 1958, Cuba was under the voracious siege of Communism... and nobody noticed.