Cuba Memoir VC2

This video is one of the rare few with English subtitles. It is simply just the story of a Cuban family. It narrates the struggle for survival that we Cubans have to endure. Trapped in a dead end situation. Eleven million Cubans living in a country without any rights. Eleven million people, living in starvation mode, and lacking the basic needs for survival. Trapped like criminals under a totalitarian regime. Unable to escape, and unable to speak out. Any sort of verbal outcry is punishable by law. The norm is years in jail, and for many less fortunate, their life.

Fifty years of injustice for a country that is ironically just 95 miles away from the US shore. The freest country in the world.

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[jfabre123]

This is incredibly beautiful and detailing--refreshing--truth--­i appriciate it immensly. Americans are jaded by the holywood castro--and often forget about the true villan and the results of dictatorship in cuba

[jf33813]

Part II...I came from Cuba in the 60's as a baby...the story that he tells fits with everything I grew up hearing. While I honor what he shares, I also think that we need to prepare for the new world that is now in the process of emerging. Hope that Cuba will not become the "Gumby" it was when the USSR and the US pulled at it from each side. Not a new place for China/Venezula/take your pick will take one side while we take the other and once again rip this country apart...enough already!

[jf33813]

Feels/sounds very authentic...any society that has been under such strict control for so long will have a bit of a bipolar reaction at first when the embargo is lifted/Castros are out of power. Intially, elation, then depression at finding out that "things/freedom" in and of itself will not bring happiness and then finally (hopefully) after a few years (think East/West Germany) be at some level of maturity as they find themselves in a better place but still on a journey to a much better place