All you need to know about the Cuban "revolution"

Our new blog neighbor, Sunrise in Havana captures the heatbreak and tragedy of castro's damned revolution in one post, "The Ghosts of Communism".

Here is an excerpt, it was hard not to post the entire moving eloquent whole, but this should really only be read in its very poignant entirety. I hope this will lead you to do so:

I was six years old, my brother was one, when my father left Cuba and I will never forget that day, for as long I live. His flight had been canceled two times before, so when he carried me on his shoulders that day I thought he would be back, just like the other times, but he didn't. The following weeks are very blurry, but I recall my mother telling to stop waiting, because he was not ever coming back.

We were denied an exit visa. It was standard procedure to let the husband leave without his family. It was their way of punishing us for not conforming and when young kids where involved, they had the opportunity to indoctrinate them. It would be another eight years before we could see my father again. Every family had someone that had left Cuba, via somewhere in the world.

Please read this heartbreaking, beautiful memoir, here, and take tissue, a lot of tissue.

Posted by Ziva at October 17, 2008 11:26 PM