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**If you read this book in any format, paperback, Kindle or KDP Select, please consider posting a review on AMAZON and or GOODREADS**FROM EDITORIAL LETTER I found this manuscript to be very well written. The juxtaposition of history lesson and real human experiences is powerful. The preface sets the tone well, providing the context for your memoir and an overview of pre-Castro Cuba and Castro's ascension to power. I thought the history and personal stories were well balanced, with the historical elements providing context for the personal stories. You let the reader see what Cuba was like before the revolution, how support for the revolution and Castro continued to build to a fever pitch, then the devastation of communist rule. Interwoven in this history lesson is a glimpse into the experiences of you, your family, and your friends during this time. I thought you skillfully used foreshadowing when telling a story of happier times to let the reader know that so much was going to change in such a short time. The manuscript is divided into chapters and smaller subsections indicated by subheads. There are many transitions within the subsections, moving from history lesson to personal experiences and back, but I didn't feel lost in the transitions. There were some instances where I thought transitions were abrupt,but I left them as is because, in this case, it jolts the reader from everyday family events to the harsh reality of the political climate. I like the use of the slogans not only for context (the year the reader is reading about), but also as a reminder of communist control (everything was dictated).--Kate,CreateSpace Editor © All Rights ReservedTHE ECONOMIST, customer reviewLangosta in reply to guest-ajonwjmo Mar 29th, 22:03I downloaded and read this book, and was educated to the horrors that Castro unleashed on Cuba's people. Like many Americans who have never been to Cuba, I had assumed that Castro had made minimal improvements in health and education. It seems he degraded even these socialist priorities. I am a skeptical reader, but I found this book entirely convincing in portraying Castro as the devil incarnate. ©
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Today when I travel, people ask me, "Who was Fidel?" Children and grandchildren of Cuban refugees ask, "How could Cubans have believed Castro's lies?" I wrote Lights Out to answer their questions and to correct widely held misconceptions about the Cuban Revolution, the Cuban middle class, and pre- as well as post-Castro Cuba.  Lights Out captures a child happily living the last remnants of traditional Cuban culture and then a child with an empty stomach trying to make sense of the world changing around her--all while Fidel was waging a war to stamp out self-reliance, dignity, joy, and hope, especially in Cuban children. Lights Out is a timely and provocative memoir. The book is a window into true Cuban history and the life of a three-generational Cuban family trying to survive the realities of living behind Fidel Castro's iron curtain. My Cuban story is not untypical, yet it is largely untold. While the market is saturated with memoirs of Mao's Cultural Revolution and heart-breaking memoirs from North Korea, English language memoirs of the Cuban Revolution are few. Cuban memoirs such as Carlos Eire's award winning Waiting for Snow in Havana lack the historical context that Lights Out offers and skim the surface of the disaster the Cuban Revolution became in the years after Eire left for the United States.Lights Out combines the childhood memoir intimacy of  Eire's Waiting for Snow in Havana with the hard-hitting historical accuracy and relevance of Demick's Nothing to Envy. The United States' recent opening of diplomatic relations with Cuba and Castro's death at age 90 on November 25, 2016 make the publication of Lights Out very timely. People whose interest in Cuba has been newly sparked by current events will join a solid market of memoir lovers, especially those who follow survivor accounts of totalitarian regimes and those who want to know more about this dark chapter in Cuba's history before traveling to Cuba. Â
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Product details
Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (October 14, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 153703605X
ISBN-13: 978-1537036052
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 0.8 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.8 out of 5 stars
21 customer reviews
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LIGHTS OUT, A Memoir of Cuba’s life before and under Fidel, by DANIA ROSA NASCA happened to be my last book in my reading list for 2016, and it proved to be an outstanding read deserving 5 stars!I do enjoy history especially as a woman born in the Soviet Union where history was rewritten to suit the ideology of socialist propaganda which I instinctively despised. This memoir has provided an unputdownable read; I feel a deep gratitude to Dania Rosa Nasca for the light that she brought throughout this tragic yet powerful story about Castro’s regime and how he seemed to come into power only for one reason, to do as much damage and create as much suffering as he could. I see ‘Lights Out’ as an important reminder and evidence of the so-called revolutionary ideology, a statement that deserves a special place especially in schools to help restore Cubans dignity after Fidel.Dania Rosa Nasca masterfully recreated the atmosphere she experienced, which ignited me with compassion to share her light with the world. There is a saying – a picture can speak a thousand words – in this case, hundreds of words can bring a thousand pictures to mind. I will let you be the judge:“In the Cuba before Castro and as far back as colonial times, dreams could be achieved. Life wasn’t easy, but there was hope, and hope nourished dreams, which with work could be fulfilled...â€â€œBefore Fidel, Cuba belonged to the Cuban people. In 1958, 62 percent of the sugar mills were owned by Cubans, and only 14 percent of the capital invested in the island came from the United States. 3 With the exception of a few U.S. companies and some other foreign businesses, which were mostly in Havana, almost all businesses in Cuba’s cities and towns were family owned. U.S. products played a vibrant role in the economy, but Cuba never belonged to the United States or to any other country. The productive, industrious, and successful Cuban people created their own robust economy, with more than fifty thousand small and medium-sized family owned businesses...â€â€œIn communist societies, neighbors spy on neighbors; people disappear to prison camps for minor infractions or imagined ones; the government seeks to control the very minds of its citizens; the centrally planned, government-dictated economy strangles itself, leaving shortages of almost everything; and the human spirit of innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity, generosity, and reverence is systematically stifled. Fidel sold out our cherished national hopes, accomplishments, and dreams. He gave Cuba, body and soul, to the Soviet Union in exchange for his own power. Our vibrant nation became a communist satellite, a soulless entity whose colorful, diverse, and passionate national identity was deliberately snuffed out...â€â€œSometimes I think Fidel stole more from the poor than from the rich, for the arrival of Los Caballitos gave even the most impoverished children a moment in the sunshine each year. Even the poorest could scrape together the few pennies to ride the carousel and experience the delight, freedom, and flights of fancy children need to nourish their imaginations. We were robbed of even that precious beam of sunlight in our child lives. It was done to extinguish the light in our souls…â€â€œOnly those of us who lived under Fidel know that the travesty must have been calculated. I remember thinking, My God, there will be nothing, nothing to look forward to, and that was the purpose. It was part of the soulless implementation of the communist state’s plan to rob children of joy, dreams, and childhood; to mold them into spiritless communists. Castro stole happiness from children and from their parents...“No wonder the isolation communism fosters is referred to as the iron curtain. Behind that iron curtain is untold human misery. It is an impenetrable curtain that descends over every front door, every home, and every border and shore in a communist country, smothering light and life...â€â€œBy the end of 1959, a conservative estimate of five hundred Cubans who opposed Fidel’s leftist ways were executed in Havana under the direction of Che Guevara, in Santiago de Cuba under Raúl Castro, and throughout the island under other appointed executioners. 30 This was only the beginning. By 1963 Fidel’s government had executed 7,720 souls: 2,975 without trials and 4,245 with only mock trials.â€â€œThe number of deaths and disappearances would continue to increase each week, each month, and each year. The numbers would include thousands of Cubans killed by the coast guard, when whole families were gunned down while trying to escape the evil regime; Cubans drowned at sea trying to make it to Miami in small craft or by swimming; and those whose disappearances were simply unaccounted for. The number would grow to include landowners—many of whom were the peasants who supported and gave shelter to Fidel in La Sierra. It would grow to include political prisoners who were executed or died from mistreatment or bad conditions in Fidel’s jails. Not counted were the Cubans afflicted with mental breakdowns brought on by shattered lives; Cubans driven to suicide; Cubans whose hearts were broken when they had to choose freedom over family and homeland, often only to face poverty, illness, and unnecessarily early death in the United States; or those whose lives in the United States were ravaged by anger, as were my parents’. Some numbers just don’t get counted. The world will never understand the enormity and perfidy of Fidel’s destruction of a people. Only a loving God and we, the Cuban people of that time, really understand Fidel’s massacre...â€
A captivating and eye-opening read – an account of life in 1960’s Cuba under the communist rule of Fidel Castro. As viewed through the clear lens of the eyes of a child, this book chronicles the rapid and precipitous decline in quality of life for the island’s inhabitants, to the point of virtually snuffing out all hope and self-dignity. The author’s extensive research into Cuban history reveals the circumstances that set the stage for Fidel’s usurpation of power and essentially, his taking the Cuban people hostage.As a life-long U.S. citizen, I now appreciate my country even more than ever, with all the rights and freedoms guaranteed by our constitutional government.As much as Fidel and his regime attempted to destroy the spirit and will of the Cuban people, one thing clearly stands out as unbreakable. The family bonds of faith and love of this author’s family sustained them through it all. Thank God for that.I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants a first person account of the oppression and hardships suffered under communist rule. This book masterfully dovetails the historical facts with personal experience to show how a whole population of good hearted people can be hood-winked by a deceitful and evil man.
I was in Colombia last November when Fidel Castro passed away. We were visiting my wife’s brother in Medellin. The household cheered the news of Castro’s death. “He will go straight to hell,†said my wife. “Yes,†explained my brother-in-law. “He gave the guerrillas 80% of the mines and bombs they used to murder Colombians.â€I’ve never been deluded about Castro. I knew he’d been a Communist ever since he visited the Soviet Union’s embassy in Cuba in 1943, when he was 17. He’s an admitted murderer of civilians, and very likely was a hired assassin who murdered politicians in Colombia during the 1940s. He hates the United States and blames our “imperialism†for the barbarities committed by Latin Americans against each other.But didn’t Castro lead Cuba out of the barbarity of former Cuban President Batista’s banana republic police state? Hasn’t Castro, like many old revolutionaries, moderated his evil ways? For decades, I’ve read his editorials in Cuba’s Communist Party Paper “Granma.†It’s apparent that he was intelligent and very well read on science, politics, history, and current events. He even moderated some of his fierce hatred for the United States. He admitted that the USA is perceived to be a “paradise†and that it was understandable that Cubans and other Latin Americans would want to immigrate here. He admitted that Cuba “copied badly†from the Soviet Union’s model of Communism. Maybe he wasn’t such a bad guy after all.“Oh, yes, he was,†declares author Dania, Nasca, born in 1958. She grew up as Castro seized power then slowly extinguished the prosperity, happiness, dignity, and life of the Cuban people. She tells how he confiscated property and businesses, put communist spies in every neighborhood, and ordered arbitrary arrests of anybody deemed to oppose his government, including her father, who was jailed a year for requesting permission to immigrate to the United States. Castro’s dictatorship became so extreme that he even forbade people to repair their residences, which under Cuba’s Communist Constitution, belonged to the state. Food became so difficult to obtain that Cubans starved in a country once known for its fantastically productive farms:=====In 1968 Fidel’s government announced that all home repairs in Cuba were the responsibility of the government. There were no supplies for the owners to fix their homes anyway, but people had made what efforts they could. Now buildings of all sorts started to decay, waiting for the government to come and repair them, which didn’t happen. Toilets backed up for lack of repair and lack of running water. We were lucky that we had the well and had plenty of water to keep the toilet flushed, even if we had to carry it in a leaky bucket. Imagine a whole nation waiting for the government to repair a toilet or a leaking roof.And in the cities food was not legally available outside the system. I could now see that hunger was a problem for nearly everyone. With gaunt faces, my fellow Cubans walked slower, their heads tilted to one side. They rarely smiled, and on the street they looked straight ahead in sort of a glazed fashion. My own hunger pangs hurt more if I breathed in too deeply, so I automatically took short breaths. In school there were many like me—hungry, malnourished, and squeezed into mismatching clothes that didn’t fit any more. We were all doing the best we could with what we had.I could tell visually who had access to more food than others. Usually they were the ones with the strongest communist party ties, so it was not a system where a country was only poor and there wasn’t enough.School continued to be useless, with Lenin this and Ho Chi Minh that; Yankee imperialism and Americans are evil; Russia is our friend and the United States is our enemy, etc.At home, my mother told me the truth: “Americans are good, communism is evil. Our heroes of liberty are Martí and Maceo, among others. Camilo Cienfuegos was all goodness; Fidel and Raúl, all evil. Che Guevara was an evil intruder in Cuba, just like the Russians and the Eastern Bloc are the intruders now.â€Communism strips you of your dignity, little by little until there is nothing left. It will take your livelihood, your body, your soul, and your mind until you have no spirit or any sense of self-responsibility, until you don’t know how to take care of yourself, until you are totally dependent on the government for the few scraps it throws at you.=====But didn’t Castro at least make improvements in education and medicine? No, says Dania Nasca. Cuba had competent doctors and teachers before Castro. The ones who came after were half-educated hacks and quacks. She describes Castro as a demented know-it-all who would never take advice from anybody. His revolution was a betrayal of the people and the nation of Cuba:=====Fidel’s betrayal was of a whole country; yet, to each Cuban, it felt very personal. My mother was one of the people who had adored Fidel, backed him, and supported him. The same Fidel mocked us…rubbing his betrayal and his deceit in Cuban faces.Then there was the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and finally the U.S.–Russian agreement at the Missiles of October Crisis talks, which my mother had seen as the last opportunity for the United States to liberate Cuba and keep it from becoming a Russian satellite.While others had already grieved Fidel’s betrayal and realized it was what it was, my mom didn’t start grieving until around 1968, when the truth finally hit her full force. The Americans were not coming. Cuba was doomed. It wasn’t just a bad dream or a temporary situation. This was it. The more time that went by, the more my mother’s brain became obsessed with Fidel’s betrayal. She was wired that way; it was beyond her control. While others had come to terms with Fidel’s evil deeds and carried on as best they could, she could not.=====Luckily, her father, after being jailed and having his business confiscated, was able to book a “Freedom Flight†to take the family to Miami. Coming to the USA, with its different language and culture, was yet another upheaval in the life of Dania Nasca, then a 12-year-old girl:=====Yet it was a new birth, a new life, breathing the pure oxygen of freedom instead of the stifling, lifeless, gray sludge water of Castro’s Cuba. We were reborn out of death. Cuba was not so lucky. Cuba’s revolution once seemed to be a new birth of freedom, heralded by one of the headiest and most exciting victory parades in human history and achieved by a remarkably unified national will. Yet what appeared to be a birth was actually the death of the republic.=====Besides portraying the malevolent evil of Castro, this book offers insights into Latin American culture. The extended family, including grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, is a pillar of Latin American society. Families had their normal run of difficulties before Castro, as all families do, but also joyous moments. The joy went away when Castro seized power.My takeaway is that the USA should have reclaimed administration of Cuba as soon as Castro rendered its prior civil government defunct. He was a degenerate Communist megalomaniac with no redeeming values. He has poisoned Cuba, and much of the rest of this Hemisphere, including Colombia, whose civil war with Cuban-supplied Marxist guerrillas killed tens of thousands; and now again with the catastrophe in Venezuela. Cuba trained Venezuela’s secret police to assassinate opposition leaders and even street protesters who are desperate to feed their children in a barbaric country whose government has seized control of farms and stores.Fidel is dead, but his betrayal of Cuba, and all of Latin America lives on. It is possible that the leftist governments roiling Latin America will set the entire continent back into another century of stagnation while the rest of the world moves forward. If that happens, Castro’s dead hand will be responsible for spreading the misery he created while he lived.
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