On April 1 , 1980, a bus crashed into the Peruvian Embassy in Habana, Cuba with hopeful asylees. Within 48 hours, over 10,000 people occupied every inch of the 28,000-square-foot embassy. takes us on an incredibly detailed journey of the 45-day occupation. The book is filled with vivid details of misery, without food, sanitation, or hope. The anecdotes of her life experience in Cuba as a child during the cold war, and the cruelties of communism toward young nongovernment sympathizers are reviving. This book is full of stories of real-life cases, and the marginalization of free thinkers, intellectuals, the clergy, and the gay and lesbian community. is an eye opener about the perils of collective thinking and the thread of contemporary socialism. It guides the reader to overcome life's improbable and intolerable challenges. A must-read for young adults to make help them aware of what will happen if they do not protect and defend democracy. This book is a page-turner, 100% accurate and detailed.