http://www.xavieramador.com Psychologist, Author, Professor and Speaker Fri, 09 May 2008 19:11:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.2-alpha en http://www.xavieramador.com/2008/04/12/listening-to-cuba/ http://www.xavieramador.com/2008/04/12/listening-to-cuba/#comments Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:07:01 +0000 admin http://www.xavieramador.com/2008/04/12/listening-to-cuba/ My father, a successful Cuban lawyer in the 1950’s, listened to Castro and like my mother was persuaded to support the revolution–he ran guns for the insurgents. In 1959 he was offered a position in the new government but turned it down when he realized his mistake: there would be no new democracy as promised. This led him to help with the Bay of Pigs invasion and ultimately cost him his life. My mother escaped to the US with only her four children and the clothes on our backs. Like many Cuban refugees we started with nothing but each other and a bitter lesson in the dangers of listening to Castro.