THE FIRST CUBAN CHRONICLE IN THE NEW ERA WITHOUT FIDEL. The triumph in the 59th of the Revolution and the rise of Fidel Castro to power changed the lives of millions of Cubans, but that was only the beginning of the complex journey of the island during the last half century: an embargo courtesy of the United States, the patriarchal presence of the Soviet Union, the Special Period and a series of political and social events that culminated in November 2016 with a definitive turn of history: the death of Fidel. The eyes of the world were placed in Cuba, expectant of their destiny already without the leadership (or the yoke) of one of the most emblematic figures - hated by some and idolized by others - of our century. In Cuba without Fidel, Julio Patán makes a trip of double discovery: on the one hand, the chronicle of how he lived those first months of orphanage a population that made its way, little by little or in droves, towards a modernity that was half known and almost nothing was understood; on the other hand, the critical analysis without makeup of a reality that the filter of revolutionary feeling does not always allow to appreciate in its true dimension.