Heartbreaking message from a Cuban father when saying goodbye to his daughter at the airport: "I have an earthquake in my heart"

Cuban contemporary art critic Jorge Gómez de Mello wrote a moving message on social networks after saying goodbye to his daughter at the Havana airport and being left with what he describes as "an earthquake in the heart."

In a publication inFacebook titled "Exodus", Gómez de Melo says that he said goodbye to his daughter – who was traveling to Miami thanks to humanitarian parole – at the Havana Airport; and despite having been left with "an earthquake in her heart," she was surprised by "the contradictory happiness" that her only daughter was beginning the path of the diaspora.

"For different reasons, and despite how difficult it is to live in the perennial disaster that a group of arrogant politicians have turned this country into, until now none of the three members of our small family had decided to go into exile. But the persistent lack of options and perspectives to develop a simply normal existence has led Daniela to join the Cuban migratory stampede, thereby violating her desires and feelings. From now on she will have freedom and logical conditions to choose how to direct her life. , which will contribute to their personal fulfillment and pave the way for their efforts to build a happy future, which is reason enough for me to feel happy," he expressed.

He points out that the young woman's departure means a kind of family breakup, which must now be equipped with the ability to do without as "an important skill to reduce the burden of anxieties typical of this time, but in any case there are losses that produce a shudder." that maybe it will calm down on its own with the passage of time.

She states, not without bewilderment, "every time we give the news to a friend, neighbor or family member, they react with tremendous euphoria. Some of Daniela's friends shout with joy and everyone congratulates her effusively, as if instead "If he had obtained a visa he would have won several million dollars in the Power Ball."

The film critic considers that this fact is due to the fact that "aspirations and the notion of success of Cuban society have changed dramatically.

He regrets that now "getting away from the island is the great objective, whoever achieves it is seen as a winner."

At the end of his message, De Melo points out that he can confirm "that the only "achievement" of the Revolution, whose results have grown steadily for 65 years, is the exodus."

This week it emerged that the number of Cubans authorized to travel to the United States "in a safe, orderly and legal manner" thanks to the humanitarian parole program approved by the Biden administration, reached 86 thousand in March, according to recent data offered by Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Until the end of March 2024, more than 404,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela were approved to travel through this initiative, which grants a maximum of 30,000 visas per month for the benefit of the aforementioned nationalities, CBP said.

The Cuban migration crisis worsened at the end of 2021, and has reached historic figures with more than half a million Cubans emigrating since then.