Emigration is generally a painful process but in the case of Cubans also means a journey of no return. As if they had committed a very serious crime, the State deprives them of all their belongings. No matter whether legally acquired property, everything will be seized from housing and cars to furniture. If they refuse to surrender not receive the "Permit to Leave" given the all-powerful Directorate of Immigration. So no choice but to "go through hoops" and give them all that the family brought together in a working life. The inspectors arrive like vultures in search of what may be a party to the state and the other for their own benefit. No one escapes, not even children. The grandmother of a 13 years, traveling to meet her mother, demanded the property of all appliances, looking for one on behalf of the young woman to decomisarlo. A good friend, too revolutionary she emigrated for family reunification, as he told me indignantly snatched everything. He had to deliver the car they had bought a thousand sacrifices, TV, refrigerator and even your own home. When he finished the inspection sealed the apartment and left on the street with her daughter until she left the plane .. 3 days later. Corruption is just so miserable that, in front of them, an inspector disarmed the lock on the door and hid it in her purse. I talked about it with an intellectual who was forced to pay her home when her parents went to live in Miami. Is shielded in a strange "law" did not consider that the house had already been paid and that he had always lived there. I'll explain slowly for non-Cubans. When someone migrates and is listed as the owner of the family home, those who remain have to buy it back, although it has already been paid before. A policy designed to punish .. well to those remaining. This intellectual would not yield but explained, politely, that if he did would never put the property to its name, so that was a risk that a venal official out of the house tried to smuggle it on the black market. Of course, the Cuban population is clever and has learned to deal with this "nanny state" that gets angry every time one of their children leaving home. Inspectors just remove the waste, which can not be given away or sold. Months and even years before, to be nominally in the house include a new "resident", for which they invent false and nonexistent weddings relationships. This person will have to pay for housing, but in general, it can not remove. The car lost all the pieces "marketable" before delivery, the Japanese television is changed to a black and white Russian, Korean refrigerator sterling silver hinged hoop earrings for one Chinese, the air conditioning goes out and the hole is sealed without leaving marks. Even the mattresses are disappearing. Of course, this is noted but no one can prove it and just let the inspectors steal the spoils (a lock or a pair of hinges), to sign the OK and the family can leave the country. But this is just a little revenge on the people. Anyway it is a bitter hour. When sealing the entrance to the home, it is as if they "burn the ships" to prevent the return. And nothing material is left on their land, even the possibility of return because they never allow them to reside in the country. Actually say "never again" is inaccurate. This "law" contemplates and macabre one exception: respect the ownership of the cemetery the cemetery. The reason is simple, dead after migrants return to their right to return, to be buried in the soil of their homeland. I also know of cases of people who wanted to leave for residence abroad and forced to go for final departure. I do not know what they are hoping to eliminate these laws so stupid. Definitely the issue of immigration laws is something that has to be changed in the bud. They are all reactionary laws that have nothing to do with the time we are living in Cuba. I know one person who moved to Miami, but could not be depressed, so I decided to return to Cuba. He did and was able to legalize their residency status Cuban again without problems. With this story I want to demystify what it is people who can not return home. Of course, those who left because of political problems could not return, unless they adopt a discourse favorable to the government of Cuba. Fernando, deep pain because a comment like that when you have lived many times, average distance, half incredulous, and when "one" defends his reasons "revolution" to apply such laws .. I have known these inspectors, the less range are made of any shade, the more owners today are very good houses .. How sad is the situation of the Cuban immigrant, take away all the rights and impose upon us the duty to pay huge amounts of money to visit our relatives or put some flowers on the graves of loved ones. Thanks again for an item Fernando as true, and brought tears to me thank you once again to be a journalist honest in their reporting of the reality of my country of origin. Thanks Fernando for treating a subject so rough, Paleolithic, Machiavellian, draconian, inhumane. Do not we focus on material things, let us focus on how hard to migrate no return, at least live .. This at first was a measure to confiscate property misappropriated by many officials of the Batista government, the bourgeoisie and other (which includes those who steal and simulators, which pose as revolutionaries to "hesitate communism" and put the two hands on "mass" until they get caught and then jump the pond, no doubt among the hypercritical that occasionally desbarran this blog has more than one, there is no wedge worse than the same suit) has really degenerated into a complex bureaucratic measures (rather donkey-cratic), where there are many who take the opportunity to steal, without discounting the thousand and one tangles resulting from the ingenuity of the Cubans (both those who want to circumvent these measures, such as the that make them increasingly entangled), inherited from the Spanish picaresque and African. That must change, which does not mean that it is precisely the course "journey of no return" says Ravsberg, most of which have appeared in recent years back to see their families again and again (honestly, some, I I thought it would never return while criticizing both the government even come to be treated in hospitals). Congratulations to touch this topic. It is a reality that can not be denied! Those who have emigrated we suffer, and how little material was taken from us because we had little, but we lost that right. I have seen immigrants from other countries that if things do not go well, they return to their homeland. Or if they do well, they decide to return and invest in their homeland. I think that's the main difference between a Cuban immigrant and the rest. We lost the right to return to our homeland. If we go wrong, we have no choice but to keep ahead, until we do well or until it breaks the palm oil. If we do well, we have no what we have to reinvest in other lands. This lack of rights is in my opinion something that identifies the current generations of Cubans, unfortunately she did not escape from the inside, not outside of us. The reality is exactly how Fernando account. And as you read this post made me very sad because I emigrated seven years ago and I could not return even for a visit, and I have my father and my mother 91 years and 83 and I could not see themselves more, and I ask no-go, and I stay there two sons, four grandchildren do not know, three brothers … I only managed to bring my wife and my three young children. I emigrated illegally in 2002 and I can not go back or visit in that year because I had done a study on the political career of Fidel Castro, especially on the battle of ideas, about the show of Elian Gonzalez, and leadership in the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, with the conclusion that the battle of ideas was the sole purpose of psychologically preparing the public precisely for 11-S-. This study had it saved on a computer that had acquired illegally, when it was forbidden to have a personal computer in Cuba, and the day before I sold that computer, I sold it because I needed money, and the day before as a precaution , and I thought I had erased all but since I'm not computer expert since before the month and that computer was in the hands of the DSE, and immediately summoned my wife and my brother and interrogated them for days, until convinced that they knew nothing about it, and then they were released and warned them to tell me not to put one foot there if he would ever be sentenced to prison. The question of ownership, of course it hurts, but nothing hurts more than Almighty Government, I understand the euphemism of Fernando referring to the Directorate of Immigration, to decide your Cuban. It's all of them. Everything is the King. And then the money question is Fidel, we should put a price on the island and the soul of every Cuban and Forbes comes up short. The immigration issue is one of the saddest of the Cuban reality. The eternal deprivation of the right to reside in the country when the only sin has been to try their luck in other countries is really an injustice. It is a basic right of any human being, taken as such in Article 13 of the Declaration of Human Rights. At the same time however, when traveling to Cuba, these "non-resident Cubans" are required to travel with his Cuban passport and show proof of residence in the extrajero. According to paragraph a) of Article 15 of the Constitution of the Republic, will lose Cuban citizenship those who aqdquieran a foreign citizenship without Cuban Immigration emabargo fully accepts a foreign passport as proof of residence abroad, but continued to demand the Cuban passport to enter the country. Foreigners are different rules regarding weight adunales regulations, foreigners do not even require your luggage. The Cubans "nonresident" but if forced to weigh their luggage. If you decide to "make the smart" and show your foreign passport, review it to check BIRTH place, and once they notice that "you are Cuban," even though they send you packing. The number of prohibitions absurd but especially unfair is really huge. In his speech at the Tenth Regular Session of the People's National Assembly, Raul mentioned: ".. We agree with those who have warned of the excess of prohibitions and legal measures, which do more harm than good. Most say that we were correct and just in time, but few have. Fernando very good comment, as always. This topic has been discussed many times but the fact that your writing is so simple and truthful to the best I've seen the subject matter. And before you leave any defender of the indefensible, saying that these houses gave them the revolution to the people, please Find out the stats before you speak, lest someone might say the revolution has built qeu all the houses that have been granted the right to descomisar. Pq ent houses did not exist until after 1959, all we would hear that they discovered Cuba. In my case Ditch the country on a temporary permit, but not return. Upon completion of the last 11 months you reside in Cuba, presented himself at my house one of those aforementioned inspectors to claim titles and properties. The house where I lived was inherited by my parents and my grandparents built long before the revolution, not us " the assigned "the glorious revolution as they like to say, and still had to show that I appeared on the property. As for possessions had nothing so they caught nothing. But hey they own everything and to be outside a the country is stolen with the ridiculous cost of the paperwork of revolutionary Cuba that we branded as traitors worms but loves taking the biggest slice possible of our blood. "I know of one who came to stay," says Issac, see you , I just read a case of a child in Brazil to which the stepfather was inserted a needle into the body fifties. According to the common sense of this comrade, in Brazil they put needles padrastos children. Almost all countries of the world Permit or Visa gives foreigners to enter. So that makes the Crown ITS CITIZENS. Semantically if a Peruvian going to Venezuela for the second time, RETURN. can not work, but returned. According to this line of thought, the Cuban passport, The White Card, the Entry Permit, Residence Permit Overseas are stories written by Homer in the new Mythology Robolucionaria. And it is a myth that Fidel and his Casta Real has the same power that the Gods of Olympus, and they punish and enjoy, as the Gods of Greek Mythology. Fidel vs. Zeus. Only the difference immortality. Gentlemen, want to put in the same balance of a Cuban Permission to enter their country, to permit an alien to enter a country that is not theirs, is as criminal as defending the right of the hordes and assaulting robolucionarias DEAF by Cuban feel differently. Be Robolucionario, I see that the heroic General again to change his costume, is an act that requires making Common Sense a package manure. Fatherland or Death. Yes. So it is. How sad. The issue of emigration is one of the more painful by the absurdity with which it is treated by the officers. No distinction, however many of the Cubans who emigrate are unrelated to political problems. I miss you only count the part of the return (when you can, those who can). The customs control is one of the more humiliating nightmares that we must submit without a murmur . Not that in other countries is different. From Miami Airport to Heathrow have intensified and tightened controls: TO ALL. The problem is that in Cuba there measures two meters, one for foreigners and one for national returning to see their families (and leave money). To us, treat us badly if we get quiet, polite and decent. I have suffered and seen little abuse depues arriving tired from a long trip .. nooooooooooo! Separate! look over there for the mirror! is a shame. are very rare the Have a nice stay! is as if the unstable (last bit) Customs officials will produce a feeling of revenge against the "gone", foreigners are shocked at such a welcome. I remember an article surprise! time ago Soledad Cross on purpose. The barbarities of immigration policy in the public domain. And no one lifts a finger. This article back a few annos was rigorously applied But when the Cubans began to obtain citizenship and work in espannola Espanna saw significant share of $ Angre Cuban could be obtained, charged me $ 40EUR per each of these Cuban-espannoles were outside the country, charged by the paperwork that each had to be repeated 11 months, 10% tax on all foreign money, pa $ aje, Invitation letter pa $ $ ion renewal of contribution and in the end all the money from these people was to spend in Cuban stores $ $ products as everyone knows obrevaluado up to 300% and was suspended above each of these people in your household (from the book that they will kill you) to not give your family a surplus products. In beginning of this process of Cubans espannoles most people had access to citizenship were mostly elderly retirees in Cuba, most unproductive for the country so it was even greater gananc $ ia. The new problem has now arisen with the new law of historical memory espannola where espannoles grandchildren also can obtain citizenship and this group in Cuba come a few hundred thousand, for the grandchildren when children benefiting from the law by which parents (grandchildren of espannoles) apply. These grandchildren are mostly active prodcutiva force and a large majority are professionals so Cuba would affect the productive force and aging as has been claimed by them, and on another blog mentioned that the Cuban government the first thing did was to prohibit the issuance of birth certificates literal document required for the process of the law of historical memory, therefore Espanna then allowed to use birth certificates as a form and now Cuba has limited this to those who are authorized only qeu to obtain by the provincial ministry of justice. Still Cubans as we all need to "solve" each other and even against the government now go lass inscriptions dating back to when I started this policy. The government knows that and now apparently according to Radio Bemba (gossip, reviews, leaks), the government tried to apply the paragraph above, and this watering "the ball" of qeu qeu whoever exercises the privileges citizenship espannola lose health, education and book (the duration) or travel does not matter if you are in the country, if you do lose espannol all these great achievements. And for the moment it is only gossip to intimidate but hey we all know that there is a clause and that when they do not agree but it ended up with that. Of course the first thing they did was in the Communist Party of Cuba was not allowed anyone to get this dual citizenship, at least know a few cases that changed the red card (which represents the party) by the espannol passport. Fernando This post is objective in all its details, but there is more. All of prey that operation by which Fidel Castro stripped of their property to the Cubans who emigrate, is negligible compared to the stripping of fundamental rights with the family division and hatred that has been instilled against migrants. Fernando narrates the tragedy of today, but when Fidel Castro read this post will say, "what else they want!?" Because this story is smooth if migration compared to years ago. Recall some respects:. 1 – The worms were classified as migrants, and until the mid 70's no one could visit their relatives on the island were then popularly called butterflies, because they worms were already flying. There were no exceptions or with the 14,000 children who came through Operation Piter Pan, who could not see their parents until almost 20 years later. 2 – When someone is getting ready to emigrate, was also described as stateless automatically lost his job and had to work cutting sugar cane farming for 3 years as a slave to earn the right to paternity leave. were transported still remember standing in crowded walk, and sometimes they threw objects and eggs and could not defend themselves. 3 – In Cuba no one could communicate with his family in exile, or parents and children, and even by letters-if he did not want to be marginalized, because they automatically lose the "right" to enter the PCC and UJC and lost to the right to study at universities in the island Thus the link between Cuba and the exile of principles of the Revolution is much smaller than the subsequent exile. 4 – The famous "acts of repudiation", true acts terrorists were invented precisely against those who emigrated in 1980. mobs led by DSE officers were presented before the houses of those who were preparing to emigrate, and shouted all sorts of insults against morality, they threw eggs, reviled them, and they beat. Today these acts of repudiation are applied against dissidents declared. 5 – In the 90's was that the Cuban government encouraged visits by exiles after the fall of the Soviet Union, and in the special period, with order to extort dollars as a survival of the Revolution, and were related to their relatives on the island far from humanism, and precisely for that visit the island is so expensive for the exiles. So Today migration has had only a "relative ideologization." And that's not me, it makes it clear his own tyranny. "Indeed, despite the relative ideologization immigration act that took place during the summer crisis 1994, at the level of discourse remains the perception that leaving Cuba is a decision which are present in addition to economic factors and family, ideological factors. (…) The arguments for the primacy of ideology in the phenomenon of migration are based on the following logic:. "2 – The decision to migrate involves abandoning their duties as citizens, by ignoring the plight of Cuba living, and place the individual interest over solidarity with those are. "3 – Emigration to the United States amounts to objectively placed on the side of the power that plagues the nation, and capitalize on migration precisely to undermine them." 4 – Migrants choose to capitalist society and inserted in a society dominated by the counter, whose ideological patterns actually submit. "These perceptions are reinforced not only by internal consistency, but the vision originally rooted in political discourse, in which the migrant is a 'stateless' and a' worm 'that is, a traitor and a representative of the counter -. "(Editions CEA: Cuadernos de Nuestra America, January-June 1995, PP7, 8, Havana, 1995). So the tyranny even recognizes that the Cuban exile is clearly political, and economic and have said some of its officials at times to justify their increasing number and illegal departures both discredit the Revolution. A CORRUPTION AND A TERRIBLE INFAMY AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS THAT BECOMES PART OF LIFE. A WAY OF LIFE WHERE IS YOUR PARTNER INDIFFERENCE .. CUBA WILL LEAVE THIS CASTLE rottenness DAY FALLING ON FIDEL COMMUNISM?. must make your request to the Consulate where this registered. This will be sent to the authorities of the Directorate of Immigration and Nationality in Cuba, who determine if it meets established immigration policy. People over age 60 who have not participated in activities against Cuba, they can catch up with Social Security and have a home in Cuba and are welcomed into the family home might obtain this permit, and other exceptional cases may be considered on humanitarian grounds. also considered the cases of children under 16 years of age and victims of kidnapping by elements brought illegally from Cuba. If the cause of the return was due to illness must present a medical certificate certified by the appropriate health institution and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For those who left the "Cuban paradise" , more than 40 years ago is hard to understand such abuse of government to its citizens, in Rep, Dominican and Puerto Rico a% of its people living abroad have their house and their house in their homeland, back when they please ( permizo without asking anyone, and out of their Countries). WITH A SYSTEM SO NO REASON TO INVEST OR WANT TO RETURN TO FIGHT FOR YOU CAN LEAVE THE COUNTRY LIKE Pobresa. Fernando: All housing inspectors are corrupt? I think so? You know them all?. I live in Cuba, Camagüey, and here, NOT GO WELL. I will not explain the conduct of the state. I have cousins who have emigrated and still home to my family, without having to re-pay. The truth is that many people also sell their goods in order to have extra money for the trip. Why not say that many of the houses that are delivered are guarded by the state itself and then delivered to other families who have housing problems?. Judging by your article that in Cuba there is no honest officials in the government. Which, for me at least, I work for the state, is nothing less than an insult. does not fit all, Fernando Ravsberg . Excellent article Fernando, but I smell like you're getting in over my head with the owners of the "corral." This is all very true, but what even they do not realize is that the material comes and goes and when you decide to get out of this infernal prison makes for something more vital and necessary, freedom, at least that was my case. I drop everything and not for a second I regret that. If I had a palace full of jewels fortunately it had changed for the freedom I enjoy with my family now. This of course does not justify their already demonized and arbitrary practices of massive theft and violation of the most basic human rights. This has nothing to do with step-needles much less try to justify anything. is that for some if you're not white you have to be black. With so many restrictions and measures arbritarias through so many years, I could not prevent the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Cubans of all ages . I have changed many things in the world and also in Cuba, although some will accept it and believe it can maintain the same nonsense. not worth talking of the past, but what is necessary to learn these things so sad and miserable because the future will be different, fortunately life is passing and we with it, the dinosaurs became extinct and new dinosaurs are dying too, and with them their ideas. Fernando'm Cuban and I know in the flesh all that described, but seeing so embodied in words, remember the cuts, sores, pain of life is very strong. Thanks a lot, because just because we are remembering the thousands of miles from our home, which we were born, is that We aspire to be better and have a day (not when) a better Cuba. Your writing is almost real, because the Cuban reality than any fiction, however powerful. Excellent post. Of course to respond to Ed's comment 21, same is not true in all cases. But what is clear is that the generality of housing officials around the country are corrupt, not the accused. simply is the way of life that the system has forced them to take. When you look at their bosses and superiors do not see the purity of principles .. so they do the same. I'm also an unexplained variant of Cuban immigration laws. I came to reside in Canada, but I wanted to go final, Immigration She handed me permission to visit abroad, I have to always turn before 11 months, pay the consulate in Ottawa 640 CAD, which is the tariff for 10 months out of the country, and when I go to Cuba. which is always for a week, send me to run with the immigration process again to give me back the Permit for leaving, pay back the 150 CUC .. you think it's fair for someone who wants to keep the residence in Cuba? I think this year I Migrants will become final .. I have no home in Cuba, much menos.no worth .. I enable the passport and we will see later. still remember that day of March 1968 (being a child, I said goodbye to my grandparents and never look behind, I knew I could not see again), I was in school to the field when I came out (with 13 years in a field of Jovellanos) and all I had to leave the tube (pants, shirt, boots), I left Cuba for Spain only with the few clothes I had (of course nothing for the winter in Madrid in March), no money, but with the more blessed the world because I knew that from now on I would be owner my future, ate in soup kitchens and lived in the Help of other Cubans who came before, BUT NOT ONE DAY OF MY LIFE AND ME regretted ABANDONED LAND WHERE I WAS BORN, BUT MORE WHERE I'VE BEEN TREATED WRONG IN MY LIFE by fanaticism IDEOLOGICAL THOUGHT OF WHICH CREATE A "NEW MAN" AND IMPOSING AN OLD AND TEMINARON CLASSICA totalitarian dictatorship. Yes, there have been cases of people who have regresadoa Cuba, but they are the exception. personally do not know any, just references. If I know of cases of some who have tried to stay, and immigration gone home to look … we Cubans work for everything related to emigration. to exit if exit permits, the superproceso of libreracion ministries, delivery properties (if you do, the most we had nothing to leave), so the military committee, passport, ticket (if I include the passage, for raising the money for that is a problem, get you friends I give you) And all that you can not return for final. And all this, not to return if you are over 11 months. It's 'exile' weirdest I've seen. It's like we say, here you will not but never live, you have no return to your country, but that if, come to bring money from time to time. Like when you check the bride, and says that she does not become more, but that from time to time serves to
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