Fuego Paperback 0692799176 9780692799178 J. R. Ortiz

FUEGO is the fictional story of Jorge Sierra, a Cuban poet and painter during the times of Fidel Castro's revolution. Also an opponent of Fulgencio Batista's corrupt prior regime, he refuses to accept the betrayals of the Cuban Revolution. With a loving family, wife, and child, the freedom fighter drops the pen and brush and takes up the gun in struggle against communist tyranny in his island home. Taken prisoner after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, Sierra goes to the infamous prison, La Cabaña, in Havana. FUEGO depicts the final twenty-four hours in a patriot's life.