Stories and Destinies

New times are upon us, changes are in store for the world's societies, dictatorships fall, political systems of Latin America are changing. The largest island in the Caribbean Sea, walks towards necessary changes, 52 years of dictatorship have left much hurt and scars in the Cuban population, that time is getting closer, where you can see in the horizon freedom for all Cubans. Scattered around the world today, live more than 2 million Cubans, they each have their own tragedy, each with...
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New times are upon us, changes are in store for the world's societies, dictatorships fall, political systems of Latin America are changing. The largest island in the Caribbean Sea, walks towards necessary changes, 52 years of dictatorship have left much hurt and scars in the Cuban population, that time is getting closer, where you can see in the horizon freedom for all Cubans. Scattered around the world today, live more than 2 million Cubans, they each have their own tragedy, each with scars, product of the pain of families having to separate living away from their loved ones. If anyone wants to know what nostalgia is, ask a Cuban.Too many graves will need to be visited the day they are able to return. Too many that have passed, and they were not allowed to bury.Walking the streets of Miami, headquarters and this pilgrimage center of Cubans around the world, I breathed the pain of a grandfather who never returned, I saw a mother crying for her lost son, I knew the pain of a brother who missed a hug, gazing into the horizon a friend who, beer in hand, mentioned the name of a lost friend on the other side.Born from the experience STORIES AND DESTINIES, picks up in its pages the experiences of many, Joseph, Yusi, Yakelin, those could be the names of any of us, as it may also be the story of each one of us.We could not forget the next generation of Cubans, the pain is part of these people that emigrated, who dreams every night with the lost land after so many years. Today many of us ask for national reconciliation, forgiveness for the villain who has done all this, from my humble position I ask, how does a father forgive the man who took his son? How do we forgive 75 000 who disappeared in the Florida Straits? A mother that saw her son leave and never returned? How do we forgive so much pain and suffering?STORIES AND DESTINIES tries to tell some of those experiences, you will find in this book, the aroma of a cup of Cuban coffee, the smell of cigar, the slenderness of the royal palm, the mountainous landscape of Cuba. For Cuba and because of Cuba it was written, to let our truth be known, the suffering Cuban exile, the truth of an oppressed nation.