BOOK 1 - CHAPTER 1 - ANTONIO
CUBELA LIBRE: ROAD TO REVOLUTION - THE PODCAST SERIES by Adrian E. Alvarez, Esq.
Episode notes
October 28, 1956. Havana, Cuba.
Beneath the pulsing neon and bleeding mambo of the Cabaret Montmartre, the apex predators of Fulgencio Batista’s regime drink rum and dismiss the growing whispers of revolution. Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Blanco Rico, head of the Military Intelligence Service, knows the republic is rotting from the inside out—but even he doesn't realize how close the fire has come.
In the series premiere of Cubela Libre - Road to Revolution, step into the suffocating heat of 1950s Havana. As Blanco Rico and his elite entourage navigate a jungle of silk, cigar smoke, and political paranoia, the tension between the entrenched military and the student agitators—led by José Antonio Echeverría—reaches a boiling point.
When a sudden, point-blank ambush turns an opulent elevator lobby into a slaughterho ...