Word: rodriguezes
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Life in the United States has not been easy, even for a man who was drafted into military service after the eighth grade, but Rodriguez says the freedom "is like being reborn. I can walk around or stand on the street for half an hour and no one will bother me. In Cuba, the police would...
...most vivid memory," Rodriguez recalls--and his large, brown eyes flash--"is the concentration camp they brought us to for 72 hours before we got on the boat--thousands of people sleeping on rocks with no food. We were beaten and mistreated by police and police dogs...
...Propaganda is Castro's greatest weapon," Rodriguez states. "He uses it to discourage us from leaving. He told us that minorities have no rights here and said the CIA keeps tabs on all leftists...
...Rodriguez is eager to find a job--any kind--and bring his family to the U.S. so they can "enjoy the rights all humans are entitled...
...have written them three letters," Rodriguez says, clenching his fist nervously. "But I've received no answers and I wonder if my letters reached them...