The album cover features a minimalist grid composition in red and black dots on the label, creating a pixelated portrait effect. The gatefold interior presents a dramatic design with a bold red background featuring a white silhouette map of Cuba, alongside black-and-white photographs and testimonial text fragments. The back cover displays a halftone portrait photograph rendered in a fine dot screen, creating tonal depth through optical effects. The stark red, white, and black color palette evokes revolutionary symbolism while the clean, modernist layout reflects 1970s Cuban graphic design sensibilities.
This spoken word album documents Haydée Santamaría's talk to young Cuban communists and pioneers about her brother Abel Santamaría, a hero of the Moncada Barracks assault on July 26, 1953—the attack that launched the Cuban Revolution. Abel Santamaría was captured and brutally tortured by Batista's forces before his execution. Haydée herself was a Moncada combatant and later founded Casa de las Américas in 1959. Released during "Año del Primer Congreso" (Year of the First Congress, 1975-1976), the album preserves oral history from one of the Revolution's founding figures, transmitting revolutionary values to Cuba's youth through intimate testimony about sacrifice, martyrdom, and revolutionary commitment.