All rights are reserved to the books and additional stories within this website by, 30 Days to Freedom, LLC a Florida Limited Liability Company whose members are three siblings and a first cousin. Three of them were born in Cuba and the fourth was born in New York City to newly immigrated Cuban parents.

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The actual authors of the books and Cuban Chronicles herein, are Roberto Mesa and Aldo Paredes. It was a labor of love for them to tell these stories.

 

Its their collective experience of all four and the more than 60 years of hardship thrust upon the people of the Island-nation, that they wish to impart through this historical novel inspired by real people and real events. You will read, first hand accounts of how the Cuban society was forced to operate, just so they could survive.

 

In this first hand account, the authors tells of an incredible young man, stricken with polio at age six months, forced by the government to remain behind at the age of fourteen and how he courageously began a daring scheme to escape Cuba and reunite with his family. Soon, He will have to choose between Blood or Country.

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The story revolves around the political events of 1965 Cuba. Many were allowed to leave the country but many were not. Thousands of families were forced to separate, as in the family of our main character. Reynaldo, the fourteen year old boy, was forced to stay in Cuba in order to serve in the military, even though he was handicapped.

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Read about how he calculated every step in order to infiltrate the government and gain access to many of the officials that would place him in the right place at the right time.

 

Come back periodically, for additional stories about other families that were torn apart, many were  thrown in prison under horrible conditions and how for more than fifteen thousand, having to face their final fate; execution. Read about their amazing courage in the section located in this website called, "Cuban Chronicles."

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Currently being developed into a streaming limited series.