For exiles, Castro’s exit is just ‘more of the same’
20 Apr 2021
Outgoing First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party (CCP), Raul Castro, addresses the 8th Congress of the CCP at the Convention Palace in Havana, on Monday. Agence France-Presse
Adriana Brasileiro, Mario J. Pentón, and Andres Viglucci,
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Enrique Yglesias left Cuba two years ago for a better life. From Uruguay, he trekked to Guyana, across the Amazonian jungle and Central America to Mexico and the US border, where he asked for asylum.
He just arrived in Cutler Bay in South Miami-Dade after his release from detention, so he hadn’t heard: Raul Castro is retiring from official power in Cuba at 89.