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A New Course in the Life of an Immigrant Girl

We will have to teach our daughter to read and write in Spanish so she does not lose her roots, her language, just in case one day…

Songs are emerging that express love for Cuba. They speak of divine blessing over an Island frozen in time.

A year and a half ago I took the path that more than eight million Venezuelans have followed over the last decade.

Here I am — until a few months ago an agile and vigorous “dirty old man,” abruptly propelled into the sad transformation of an ailing elder.

It’s as if this country, which gradually decided not to produce anything and to make everything disappear, generates more detainees every day

It is hard to think from pessimism, I know; most people only want to be told everything they wish to hear.

Between the communists who have Cuba kidnapped and the Trumpists who think the solution is to further punish the people, anyone gets fed up.

Through social media I learned that the brave young people from the project “El 4tico” (the little room) have been detained.

Over the decades we’ve known only losses. What more is left for us, what other terrible things are still to come?

I tell myself: If there were people who survived those Nazi concentration camps, it means that I can survive my Caribbean communist camp.