Miami Herald says,”Life” is better in Cuba, according to two out of 77,000 Cubans.
The Miami Herald says Cubans are going back home, “a growing number of Cuban emigrants are returning to the island”, to prove it they talk to a woman who was in America for seven months and is the daughter of Cuban government officials and her husband who planned to go back to Cuba all along.
Some Cubans find life is better at home than in U.S.
Despite the freedom Jorge enjoyed and the ability to earn a better living as a school custodian in Miami Beach, Jorge returned to Cuba in 2002 to face a government that mistrusted him, a year of probation and friends who assume he is a member of the intelligence service. He said he is one of a growing number of emigres who after years of living abroad yearn for the sounds and familiarity of home.
Poor Jorge could only find jobs mopping floors and washing dishes?
Jorge left Cuba in 1996 with his wife when they won the visa lottery, and landed first in Oregon, where they stayed for two years. The couple eventually moved to South Florida but never felt comfortable, in part because they found the exile community too politicized. Jorge did like the freedom, the right to speak out in public, and still misses the polite manners and clean streets. But he grew weary of mopping floors and washing dishes for a living instead of playing music.
Seems Cubans are just as lazy as some Americans;
For Silvia, the daughter of government officials who lived a comfortable life in Cuba, the decision to return to the island after six months in the United States was easy: She ran out of money and had nowhere to go.
”I hate Fidel Castro, but does that mean I should work in a cafeteria?” she said. “I am 44 years old, and the first and only time in my life I went hungry was in the United States. Here, I live in a four-bedroom house and have a car. Over there, I had to live in an apartment the size of a table.”
Oh and Sylvia is the “the daughter of a Cuban government officials”
For Silvia, the daughter of government officials who lived a comfortable life in Cuba, the decision to return to the island after six months in the United States was easy: She ran out of money and had nowhere to go.
The closest the Miami Herald gets to telling us how many Cuban’s actually return back to Cuba,
Andy Gomez, senior provost at the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, said cases of returnees are isolated. Twenty years ago, it was virtually unheard of.
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Katrin Hansing, associate director of Florida International University’s Cuban Research Institute, said that in the dozen years she lived in Cuba, she met about nine people who had returned from living abroad. Most did so because they longed for a sense of community and could not fit into the South Florida rat race, she said.
And guess what…..Jorge planned on going back home to Cuba all along;
Jorge says he is glad he came home, too.
”I have a lot of nice memories of Oregon,” he said. “It’s a very beautiful place. But I always knew I was coming back.”
So lets see, the Miami Herald finds a married couple where the wife is the daughter of Cuban government officials and the husband planned on returning to Cuba all along and somehow the fact that they returned to Cuba is evidence that “life is better in Cuba”?
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Between 2005 and 2007 nearly 77,000 Cubans have reached the United States, you would think the Miami Herald would want to interview a few more of them to better source their “story”
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