Young Cuban reunites with his family after five years without seeing each other: "It was my mother's birthday"

A young Cuban resident in the United States decided to travel to the island without warning to surprise his family, whom he had not seen for five years.

Luis Martínez Rodríguez, who makes his living as a barber, unexpectedly arrived home where no one was expecting him, and he couldn't choose a better day to do it: his mother's birthday.

The emotional reunion, shared in a video on his TikTok account, is one of many that capture those moments in which the initial confusion gives way to joy and then to inconsolable crying and the hug that no one wants to end.

Luis arrived at the house driving a car while talking with his family on his cell phone.

"My family didn't know, they thought we were talking via video call from a distance," he explained.

Dozens of Cubans commented on the publication and congratulated the young man, many of them with the longing of not having been able to go to the Island since they left.

"How beautiful, what emotion, my people. When will those of us who have I220 A be able to hug our mothers," a young woman wondered.

"Here counting the days until mine, I have 15 left to see the queen of my life again, after six long years," said another from Madrid.

"Blessings, it's six in the morning and I'm already crying and I don't know you, every day it's the same!" said a third.

"There is not one of these videos that I see that I don't cry, waiting for my moment," said another.