Holy mackeral! This is a news report only found here. Great job. I am not naive about politics in Latin America neither am I uninformed about Cuba. I grew up in Florida, remember well the massive emigration from Cuba after the 1959 Revolution when I was a kid and went to school with newly arrived Cuban kids. A friend, and very younger brother of a Cuban judge who left Cuba with his family, was also a university roommate some years later. I became familiar with friends of people in the Cuban expatriate community through this family. They generally rejected the revolution, embraced conservative, anti-Cuban people like Kennedy and Nixon, and I generally as a young person remained silent and listened when they spoke of their feelings, experience, and political convictions. As the years went by and I became more informed, bilingual, independently educated (not easy in the US, especially as it relates to Cuba), my views were different than theirs, but we remained friends, was the only US American at the funeral of the father of the brothers, and to this day have contact with the younger brother who left the continental US nearly immediately upon university graduation and has lived in Puerto Rico ever since. He is a good fellow, very community-minded, and I still cannot speak of Cuba with him, basically. I am sympathetic and still try to comprehend what is happening there and the unjust and malicious policies of the US government. A big mistake I made and realize is that when I lived in Latin America for many years I did not take the opportunity to visit Cuba in person.

I very much appreciate rare reports like this one here.