my character is Jesús Miguel Santos he was born in Cuba, in the end of the story he fled Cuba to US lived to 84 and died.
The cuban revolution changed Cuba drastically, from being a democracy, to dictatorship, to Communist. Cuba has experienced many changes thought history, that land was still Cuba, but the people, the environment, the economy, it was all different, from an island paradise. to a land of constraint and restrictions. At the beginning of the story, he was pro-Castro and helped fight in the Moncada barracks attack, when he saw his friends die his resolve slowly crumbled, and he was caught arrested let go fled to Mexico came back to Cuba on the granma, when he came back his resolve was stronger. although when the Batista started attacking he grew doubts, when Castro took control of Havana his doubts were strong, he fled around the time of the end of the US embargo on Cuba.
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