Noel King

I was walking in the neighborhood and trying to get some money from an ATM.

And the political police just came and they said,

You have to come with us.

And they basically were trying to threaten me because of my investigative reporting on political prisoners, torture, that kind of stuff.

And my wife was waiting for me at home with lunch.

She was waiting for me and she...

just didn't saw me come back, came back.

So how we deal with that, and our kid was a baby, but he kind of asks, where is dad?

It would try to deal in a very...

You know, it was tough.

It was tough.

And I was free like two hours later.

But I don't want to share with him, in front of him, what was happening.

Because I don't want him to hate his country, the country where he was born.

I don't want hate to...

I can separate the country, which is wonderful, it's a geographical paradise, an amazing story, but the government is so terrible, the system is terrible, the system is diabolical.

So I don't want him to be traumatized and thinking, okay, this country, I hate this piece of land because what they did to my dad or my mom or how my mom was suffering.

What is it like to live in Cuba?

89% of Cuban households live in extreme poverty.

Can you imagine?