Fidelcastro Stories

Fidel had always thought of Che as a very dear friend, but something's telling him that Che means more than that.

It is 1988 and Rafael Áviles, an engineer at the Cuban Mint in Havana, is a young, earnest Communist Party member living with his ambitious wife, Elena. When Rafael is drafted to the war in Angola, just as he is about to become a father, he takes a risk to escape the military—convinced he is doing what's best for his country. As Communist countries around the world begin to see change, Cuba enters its dire Special Period and Rafael's family does what it can to survive. Rafael becomes disenchanted at work and, after a disastrous meeting with Fidel Castro, questions his Party ideals. Finally, he's convinced to do everything in his power to leave the island and improve his family's future. This is at once a love story—for family and country—as well as a portrait of Havana during this tumultuous time.

Che Guevara x Fidel Castro In 1955 in Mexico City, Che Guevara met Fidel Castro for the first time. Che was a young doctor shocked by the injustice he had seen across Latin America. Fidel, an exiled Cuban revolutionary, spoke passionately about freeing Cuba from dictatorship. The two men were meant to meet. They were meant to make change together. They became "close comrades" and prepared the Cuban Revolution.

In a world surrounded by the chaos of political and social change, marked by war and revolution, love continues to flourish where it should not, and this feeling is very well known to our revolutionaries. [Che x Fidel]