Sonia
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and it's all going to be free but you got to tell us what's going on in your house who talk against the government so everything was persecuting one another especially the older people that actually we live a good life before in cuba it was beautiful what do people face in terms of their friends and neighbors and families spying on them you have people in in each block there is somebody that is responsible to keep an eye on you in your house
And they tell you, you keep an eye on every neighbor of this block.
They're watching for everything.
If you bring anything, maybe I'm going from the United States to Cuba and there's somebody coming in.
So we need to watch the house in case they go out and sell in the black market or they do something with what you brought in.
So there's somebody who's always keeping an eye on you.
and try to report you.
A good thing that happened to me, something that happened to me that is very interesting, one of the trips that I went back to Cuba, I wanted to take the kids, some of the kids from there, to go fishing.
I love fishing.
So I went in and tried to rent a boat, and they told me, we can't.
We don't rent boats to Cuban people.
And I said, you may leave.
And I said, look, I have a passport.
I have a flight leaving on Friday.
Already left.
So I'm coming in to take my family on a boat ride.
We can't give it to you.
We can't rent you a boat.
You're Cuban.
Yes, you're Cuban.