Vivir la revolución

the world was at war or at least the rest of the world when we birth. it was not clear against whom they were fighting, but the big winner aims to be the u.s.a. - cradle of democracy and freedom. that was the world scenario that awaited us accompanied by the key date for all my generation: 1959 and the triumph of the cuban revolution. the photo of fidel and his companions, with their beards, their olive green uniforms and rifles, would forever change my generation. until then revolution was something distant, asian: from russia, china. the victory represented the actuality of the revolution throughout latin america that would never be the same since.