My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Both my parents came with their parents during the revolution in Cuba. Both my parents were born in Cuba. They left everything over there. My family got stripped of everything - of their land, of their jobs, everything.
I'm actually Cuban-born, born in 1956, the year Fidel Castro came into power, and my father moved my family to Miami a few years later when things were starting to look bad.
I'm Cuban. Both my parents are Cuban. My grandparents are, too. Although I have no idea where Fit comes from.
Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.
I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.
I worked for the Cuban American National Foundation for years.
My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a poor family, but I was always a happy kid.
My great-great-grandfather Julius founded the Communist Party in New York.
I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists.
Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.