I have an acquaintance whose parents managed to leave Cuba when he was a boy.. they waited seven years for a government response to their request to emigrate, and when it finally came, it was “you have two weeks to leave, and if you do not, your permit is revoked”.
They were searched at the airport for anything of value. The airport cops even took her wedding ring.
And of course, before they left, they all knew people who had disappeared. At one point Castro was running short on sugar production, and his response was to send squads out at midnight, rousting ablebodied men and hauling them off to the other side of the country for canefield slavery, never even telling their families where they’d gone or when to expect them back.
And when they ran out of men, they came for the women.
Communism is the work of the devil.
