Barely a moment after the tiny Caribbean nation of Puerto Rey is established in the late ‎‎1800s, six spirited children are born to a genteel Catalonian lady, and a stern general of the new ‎island Republic. From the Dictators' Shadows is a multigenerational family journey about the lives ‎of the Burgos-Beltrán clan who lived through the birth of their nation, then saw it fall prey to a ‎cruel dictatorship that forced their migration. Moved by the passionate eldest daughter, Rose, some ‎forged new lives in North America. Others heeded the call of social justice and remained in the ‎motherland fighting the dictatorship. Surviving devastating losses, a failed government coup, ‎totalitarian rule, assassination, migration and mental illness, the vibrant and loving Burgos-Beltráns ‎ultimately emerge in a new world and a new millennium.‎