How One Idaho Family is Being Rocked By The Crisis In Cuba
There is a lot happening in Cuba right now that is begging a lot of political questions regarding its communist regime and whether or not the U.S. should get involved or how given its agreement to not intervene with Cuban affairs. But I am not here to discuss those questions. What I do know is that there is more suffering and violence than the media knows. My extended family is living through this crisis in Cuba right now, and honestly I m scared for their lives.
I am first generation Cuban-American, absolutely thrilled and grateful to be a citizen of the United States of America. My mother, a U.S. citizen longer than she was a Cuban one, fled to this country in 1980 in escape of the communist regime. A harrowing tale, she had to leave her entire family behind at just 17. But she never forgot them and for the last 41 years has remained close with them despite an ocean between them, and done everything she could from afar to
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