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Interview with Heylin Portal

Heylin Portal, 18, habla con Claudia Flores, acerca de como se fue de Cuba y vino a Estados Unidos a empezar una nueva vida.//Heylin Portal, 18, talks to Claudia Flores, 28, about how she left Cuba…

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Interview with Elsa Bender and Barbara Menéndez

Elsa Menéndez and her mother, Barbara Menéndez ask Elsa’s grandmother, Elsa Bender about family, life in Puerto Rico, and her sense of adventure and love of travel.

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Interview with Joel Lusk and Maceo Martinet

Joel D. Lusk and colleagues Cynthia Abeyta and Maceo Martinet talk about their work as biologists and the influences in their own lives that led them to the work they are engaged in. Cynthia and…

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Interview with Xavier Sainz and Thais Saínz

Nicole Di Rocca asks her parents about the lift on travel bans to Cuba, their recent family trip to the island, their involvement in the Revolution, their immigration over 40 years ago, and their…

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Interview with Maria Lau

William Lau, 34, interviews his sister Maria Lau 39, about “71,” an artistic exhibit documenting the search for her Chinese aunts who had been left behind in China when their father…

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Interview with Dario Morell

Dario Morell (57) talks with son Dario Gabriel Morell “Gabriel” (20) about coming to the U.S. at the age of ten, and their visit to Cuba 47 years later to meet long-lost family.

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Interview with Luigi Ferrer

Luigi Ferrer, 51 talks to his partner Arthur Friedrich, 30, about how being HIV positive and how his idea of “community” has affected his life

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Interview with Sylvia Pujals Amezaga

Sylvia talks to her daughter, Maria, and her granddaughter, Denise, about coming to the US from Cuba, living in Kentucky so her daughters could attend school, and moving to NY.

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Interview with Julio A. Estorino

Maria interviews her father, Julio, about his activist youth in Cuba, his arrest by the Castro regime, and working in the United States to free Cuba.

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Interview with Maria Claudia Peralta

Alexandra and Claudia talk about growing up across three continents and the gypsy spirit their family has.

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Interview with Esperanza Bravo De Varona

Esperanza Bravo de Varona y su hija Beatriz De Varona-Craft cuentan cómo su familia huyó de la Republica Dominicana durante la revolución de Cuba. //Esperanza Bravo de Varona and…

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Interview with Amy Leticia D’Sa Brinson

Amy Leticia D'Sa Brinson (56) talks with her daughter Sabah Z. Brinson (28) about her family history in Goa and Tanzania, and about being a mother after immigrating to the U.S. with her American…

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Interview with Juliana Escobar

Alexandra "Alex" Brummitt (34) interviews cousin Juliana "Juli" Escobar (28) about her immigration from Colombia to the U.S. at the age of 17, and dealing with the loss of her…

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Interview with Orlando Varona

Orlando Varona (69) cuenta a su esposa Lesbia Varona (68) sobre sus experiencias como actor en el teatro, y como se marchó de Cuba para reunirse con su esposa, y como trabajó como actor…

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Interview with Yara Machado Marrero and Maria J. Bermudez

Yara Machado, 58, Maria Julia ("Yoti") Bermudez, 57, and Helga Silva, 61 talk about how they left Cuba separately, then went to Australia and eventually reunited in the United States.

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Interview with Elsa Solis

Elsa Solis, 56, and her sister Eliana Martin, 47 talk about their parents and their struggle to leave Cuba and bring their family to the U.S.

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