I worked for the Cuban American National Foundation for years.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Looking for a job, I was working with the Salvadoran American Foundation, a humanitarian aid group, and from there, I got an offer from the Cuban-American National Foundation.
Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.
My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
I'm certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody - regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you're from and to know what your roots are.
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-American, everybody says. I have a Cuban background, Cuban blood.
I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher.
First I became U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for WHO, and that was in 2005. And then, about a year or so later, I decided to start my foundation.
I worked at the United Nations.
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.