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Looks like we lost Venezuela.  I wonder why? I'm being sarcastic, of course. All forms of communication are carefully monitored by the communist dictatorship modeled after Fidel's Cuba.  Been there......done that.

Then in 1933, the unimaginable happened. Valito committed suicide.

Ever since I can remember, my uncle Valito’s tragic, self-inflicted death has been a mystery. From the little information I have been able to garner, I came to understand that, while at a family gathering, he committed a youthful indiscretion that most probably today would be considered benign. I seem to remember my mother telling me he had too much to drink. However, in the early 1930s, youthful foolishness was considered a big deal. A relative told my grandfather and my grandfather reprimanded my uncle and that was the end of that, but my uncle was sensitive and took the scolding to heart. Coming from a family filled with borderline depression, he was thrown into an inner state of anguish and deep depression.

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My grandparents worked the land and received its bounty, but they didn't have all the commodities that were available in the city.

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     Dania Rosa Nasca, February 28, 2016

My maternal grandparents were colonos, who grew sugar cane and were part of a group of landowners who were contracted with a central to sell their sugar cane. All the colonias were near the railroad track. 

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Dania Rosa Nasca, February 26, 2016

Word got around Spain, the United States, and much of Europe that Cuban sugar and tobacco were the best in the world, and the Cuban colony prospered.

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Dania Rosa Nasca, February 26, 2016