The drama of Lisandra Torres Castillo, a former high-performance Cuban sprint canoe athlete,went viral in 2019 when an interview given toCubanet revealed his case: single mother who lived with her baby, her grandmother and her brother in a house in very bad condition.
On that occasion, the young woman reported that since 2016 she had requested the government authorities in Ciefuegos and the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) to help her have decent housing.
“When the interview that went viral was done with me, I was never visited by the country's authorities. I never received any type of help from any organization. With respect to INDER, the only thing they knew how to tell me was that you had to have values and principles.”Torres Castillo said in recentstatements granted to the aforementioned medium, but now from a very different environment:Tapachula.
That interview did not bring her the support of INDER, but it did bring her the solidarity of many people who supported her financially. One of them was a Venezuelan with whom the young woman began a romantic relationship.
He left Cuba in December 2019 on a long journey: Havana-Panama, Panama-Barbados, Barbados-Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Once reunited with her boyfriend, they both traveled to Venezuela, the country where Lisandra's second daughter was born.
However,Everything got complicated when her daughter's father abandoned them, owing two months' rent and not even having enough to eat.
At that moment, the young woman again obtained financial support that in the long term helped her face the challenge of a journey through Central America to the southern border of the United States.
As part of the migratory route through Central America, which began in April of this year, Lisandra crossed the dangerousDarien jungle with his little daughter.
Once in Panama, he stayed in the UN camp. Then came a journey through several countries, marked by great difficulties that he has managed to overcome so far.
“And until today's sun, here we are in Tapachula, waiting for the economic issue to continue moving towards Mexico City, which is where you have to be to request the CBP One appointment”, comments the young woman hopefully, who once again appeals for solidarity to be able to move forward.
When she reaches her goal, her goal is to help her daughter in Cuba, whom she hasn't seen in four years. The girl is chronic asthmatic and also suffers from a congenital malformation of a kidney.
Like so many Cubans, Lisandra Torres Castillo dreams of a better future, one that will allow her to leave behind the hard times she has gone through.
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