A FREE COUNTRY

We were born in a free country that our fathers gave us, and first our island will drown before we agree to be slaves for anybody. -Fidel Castro Though Cuba may be a paradise for tourists and the Cuban elite, due to the dictatorship many Cubans struggle not only to survive in a country largely cut off from global society, but to be able to leave the island. During Cuba’s Special Period, an extended period of economic crisis beginning In 1989 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, there were severe shortages of resources that transformed Cuban society. This work follows a group of youth through Havana as they, unable to receive visas in order to leave the island, escape the country thro...View all