Lights Out: A Cuban Memoir of Betrayal and Survival

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Dania used to be eleven the first time she meets a Judas Goat, a chivato. Likened to the goats that lead animals to the slaughter, the informants of communist Cuba would do anything to thrill the authorities. This one has his ear almost pressed against her neighbor’s door. 

As an adult, Dania reflects at the chivato who terrified her. The incident sticks in her mind, and it is not the one danger she encounters under communist rule. Suspicion and fear will follow. 
Dania chronicles Fidel Castro’s upward push to power and the truth in the back of the dictator. His fascination with Hitler, Mussolini, and other fascists result in a totalitarian state of sorrow and pain. On the same time, she shows a deep love and respect for the history and culture of Cuba. 
Lights Out combines the childhood intimacy of Eire’s Waiting for Snow in Havana with the hard-hitting historical accuracy and relevance of Demick’s Nothing to Envy.
Castro is made up our minds to erase the past, but Lights Out is a monument to the Cuba before Castro.
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