A little more than a year and a half after arriving in the United States, the Cuban doctorAlexander Raúl Pupo Casas He fulfilled an old dream that he could never achieve in his homeland.
"I finally have it in my garage. A dream that I always had and that as a doctor in a slave country I would never have been able to achieve. Freedom can give you everything you want if you have the courage to fight for it," he said in his.
Pupo Casas shared the photo of a brand newFord Mustang, which he said only needs some small modifications.
"To some it may not seem like much, butself-respecting alpha male rides a horse like this"he joked.
Dozens of the doctor's friends and followers congratulated him on his achievement.
"Congratulations, man, if the Cuban people had listened to you, imitated you and continued, we would be free from the dictatorship," wrote a Cuban from Madrid.
"But that has no flavor. Something is missing: a ceremony there in Bayamo. You full of diplomas receiving the keys to that car (a Lada, of course). The entire union dressed in white on a platform with revolutionary songs. Gerardo the of the 5 invited to give you the keys and a pioneer from the Buey Arriba municipality reading a statement (...) And in the end, you with your brand new white coat would say that thanks to Fidel and Raúl you have a career, which will be faithful until death and that will take revolutionary medicine to places where the empire's doctors would never reach. A week later, with a bottle of five liters of gasoline to go to work, or going to work on a ministry bus because there is no gasoline..." , another Cuban mocked.
"Doctor, you deserve it and your family, enjoy it. A lot happened in that murderous dictatorship that has Cubans starving and without freedom," said an elderly woman.
This is not the first car that the doctor has acquired in the United States.
In May of last year, he bought a Mercedes-Benz secondhand, something he never thought he could do, as he confessed at the time.
"The dreams that come without having them," he expressed alongside a photo of the car, a C-Class model from the early 2000s.
While in Cuba, Alexander Pupo was a strong critic of the public health system and often denounced the poor management of hospitals on the Internet, an attitude that earned him expulsion from his job.
In 2022, he and his colleague Alexander Jesús Figueredo Izaguirre decided to leave the country andAt the end of July they finally arrived in the United States after several weeks of a difficult journey through Central America and Mexico.
Less than a month later, he was able to buy a car..
"Twenty-one days of work in a free country, as a simple worker, has given me the possibility of having what I would not have had in 30 years working as a doctor in a slave country," he wrote.
In November of that year, the doctor revealed that he worked loading boxes in astaffing in Florida, whereHe earned "about 50 times what he earned in Cuba."
"In two or three months I have the things that I was never able to have in Cuba, I have the hope of returning to practice as a doctor, because that is what I am preparing for. And I have everything I need...", he said.
Pupo always made it clear that he was studying to practice medicine again.
"My robe, I hope to get it back soon, but if it were not possible I would be proud to be a man of law...", he stressed on one occasion.
"No matter how long the road is, you are your own engine and your own barrier. Medicine, I'm coming for you," he wrote on Facebook, along with an image in which he was seen studying on the computer.
Since he arrived in the United States, life has smiled on the Cuban doctor, who last Julywelcomed his little Alessandra, a fact that made him feel "indescribable and complete joy" for the first time in a long time.
"Seeing my princess be born in a free country, surrounded by attention and good treatment, has been a unique experience that I wish my people could also have," he said.
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