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Journalist Javier Díaz: "Being born and living in Cuba is like being locked in a cage"

"If you finally manage to escape the yoke of the regime that operates in Cuba, you will feel that even if you are 40 or 60 years old, you will begin to live as if you had just been born."

Javier Díaz © Javier Díaz / Facebook
Javier Diaz Photo © Javier Díaz / Facebook

The Cuban journalist residing in Miami Javier Diaz He assured that being born and living in Cuba is like being locked in a cage.

Javier, who works as a reporter and announcer at Univision 23, shared in Facebook The image of a map that shows the virtual route of a plane leaving Havana heading to the United States.

"I wonder how many more Cubans long to be on this radar and be able to change their lives forever in a matter of hours on one flight," he said.

The young man stressed that only when a Cuban goes abroad and gets to know another country is he able to understand the true reality of where he has lived.

"Being born and living in Cuba is like being locked in a cage and only when they open the door for you do you manage to fly for the first time and spread your wings," he stressed.

"Only someone who is Cuban can understand what that means and how a system can subject an entire town to the most absolute deception never seen before"he added.

Facebook screenshot / Javier Díaz

According to the journalist, He who finally escapes the yoke of the regime that operates in Cuba will feel as if he had just been born, even if he is 40 or 60 years old.

Finally, he recommended his compatriots not to fear change.

"Starting a new life is difficult, but believe me, there is nothing like feeling FREE", he concluded.

Javier has resided in the United States since January 2016, where he arrived after a terrible journey through Central America.

Last September, he recalled His first job upon arriving in the country: in the kitchen of a restaurant in San Antonio, Texas.

"I was there during my first seven months in this country. I have never hidden it, and I always remember my beginnings as an immigrant in a very special way," he said.

The young man proudly shows what his origins were. Months before he published photos from when I lived in Cuba and only had a bicycle to get around.

"The only thing I got to in Cuba was having a bicycle! So fight for your dreams, everything is possible," he said then.

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