“I think it’s time to leave all that behind, Yadira Sebasco, 36, who was born in Camagüey, Cuba’s third-largest city, and moved to Miami 11 years ago, said as she sat in her office at a travel agency that helps book trips to the island. You have to live in the present. Even some of the históricos, as the older generation is called, have softened their views, recognizing the lack of democratic progress in Cuba. Laureano Vilches, 71, stewed for decades over the fact that his family’s business, a refrigerated warehouse in Havana, was seized by the communist government. But today, he has set aside his outrage. “As far as I’m concerned, this can only be good for the Cubans who are still there, and they’ll live a better life economically, said Mr. Vilches, who went 40 years without setting foot in Cuba but now visits every couple of months. I don’t stay angry anymore ... Hearing the news after she arrived at her job as a manicurist, Yudis Perez said it had been five years since she last saw her parents in Cuba, a long and painful separation. Perhaps now, she said, it will be easier and cheaper to reunite. “It should have happened long ago, said Ms. Perez, who left Matanzas for Miami 10 years ago. If this succeeds, it will be good for Cubans here and good for Cubans there.”
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:37:08 +0000
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