Con la paciencia de Claudio

I have thousands of reason for never going back to Cuba; at least a genuine democratic change was made in the island. This is one of the reasons. One of my sisters has been living in Germany for twelve years. She got married with a German, and now they are proud parents of my nephew, a little German boy. My sister has been going to visit our family and native country yearly along the last ten years to keep in touch with them and our culture. Her last experience in the country made me so angry, that I have decided to tell it to my friends, specially my not Cuban friends , who ask me often when I will return to Cuba. My sister decided with her husband to tour around Oriente, (the eastern side of the island), because she never had the possibility living and being a Cuban, without money and resources to do a such travel in our own country. They also brought with them my other nephew, who is five years old now, son of our sister who lives in Cuba. Cuba has beautiful places that Cu

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