1970- Walking into a room full of newly arrived Cubans and Cubans who arrived in the US in the 1960s promises to be, I assure you, an experience you won't forget.
Simultaneous heated conversations with each person trying to outdo the other, trembling hands holding cups filled to the rim with café Cubano flying across the air, their content spilled without prejudice, and feet stomping the floor from raised knee highs are just the beginning of a long evening. When a dry stem of straw succumbs to the fire, another ignites. It can go on for hours!
Young ones try not to giggle when a woman describes how she would put Fidel in a cage and make sure he dies a slow, painful death; a pellizco, pinch here, a pinch there……..
To walk into a room full of Cubans during this time in history is to walk into a room of broken hearts, filled to the rim and overflowing with pain and anger.
© Dania Herrera Nasca
April 26, 2025
