Diego Marquez is a Cuban soldier who serves for, and is devoted to the Cuban military of dictator Fulgencio Batista’s regime. He experiences many aspects of the revolution, but his loyalty lead him to his own fate. In this journal, he writes about his experiences in battle and the importance of his cause. Despite what he has learned throughout these experiences, Diego decides to persevere until the bitter end.

After many years of famine, injustice and racism under the corrupt regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista, the Cuban people decided that it was time for an inevitable revolution. Starting from street protests and small rebel groups, the people presented their hate for the government and eagerness for change. However, the government ruthlessly murdered these innocent souls who have already suffered enough repression. The brave revolutionary Fidel Castro takes a stand and leads the rebel group M-26-7 to victory and ends this horrible regime. Shortly after the liberation of the Capitol (Havana), a new temporary government under Manuel Urrutia is formed and it lasted for a few weeks until Fidel Castro started to gain control over it. Fidel Castro eventually becomes the new dictator of Cuba and makes new reforms such as increasing the literacy rate, providing better housing, and offering free healthcare for Cuban citizens. He also signs the First Law of Agrarian reform which distributed land to peasants who didn’t have any. Apart from those changes, Castro also legalizes the Communist Party in Cuba and nationalizes all previously owned American industries which triggers the US government. On the contrary to what the Cuban dictator claimed on social media, he was actually turning Cuba into a communist country and some of the rules that he had made were downright inhumane in the eyes of some citizens. These rules consisted of death penalties for all members of the previous government, the suppression of the freedom of expression, and short-term arrests for anyone who expressed their opinion on human rights and advocacy for similar things. These actions have equalized the level of corruption in Castro’s regime with Batista’s Regime and expressed to the world that a perfectly run utopian society doesn’t exist.