Wendy Guerra

Wendy Guerra’s greatest work on the world of the Cuban resistance.

The figure of the charismatic mercenary who narrates this story is a based on a real man with the pseudonym of Adrián Falcón, even though over the years he used others like El Parse, Garfio, Strelkinov…. Both tender and devilish. Falcón is now sixty-something years and with a peculiar sense of humour he has managed to survive his complicated life. He was hunted in the US and other Latin American countries for terrorism, was a key figure in notorious cases like Iran-Contra scandal, and he operated within Colombian cartels to finance his counter-revolutionary actions. Considering himself a ‘freedom fighter’, he acted against the orders of the Soviet Union, the Sandinistas and Fidel Castro.

Even though at one point he was an FBI target, he would spend his final days as a fighter as a CIA mercenary and becomes disillusioned on all fronts. This disenchantment leads him to decide to fight on his own behalf, and he finds an ally in Valentina, a woman he meets in Paris and with whom he forms a mutually beneficial relationship with; in her own way, she is also a mercenary who survived.

This work offers a reference point for those who wonder about the enemies of the left faced in Latin America. It is the fruit of interviews with Falcón and the review of archives made by Wendy Guerra, daughter of the guerrillero idealism who jumped over the wall in order to take a look from the other side.