At the camp, she was forced into hard labor by harvesting tabacco (Cuban cigars) and the boys in the camp were forced to cut sugar cane (Cuban rum).....
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I'm often asked if I smoke Cuban cigars or drink Cuban rum, the answer is a resounding NO and I never will until Cuba is free. You see the young 15 year old girl in the picture? That's my mom. She was forced into a labor camp in Cuba called: La Escuela Al Campo.....pic.twitter.com/MeFFW9y2OT
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My grandparents were only allowed to visit her once every two weeks to deliver essentials to my mom during the three months she was there. She wasn't allowed to protest, wasn't allowed to practice her religion, nor leave if she chose to.....
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She was constantly threatened with being banned from her studies at the University. My mom's friends and her slept in rat infested bunks, ate food with worms in it and many more horrors. This was all perpetuated by communism/socialism which is flat out evil.
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Thank you Mayor, for the friendly reminder of what so many of us choose to forget!
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Good for you Mayor Manny Cid raising your voice for the innocents that suffered under Castro's regimen. Shame on those that choose to forget all these crimes and pretend that they never happened.
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I totally agreed with you I lived in those camps in 1967 and 1968 we were forced to work on the fields and they call it escuela al campo but there was no classes of any kind I was only 13 and 14 years old
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