May all three find the same fate as Ian Huntley: Alexander Brothers Found Guilty of Sex Trafficking www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...
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May all three find the same fate as Ian Huntley: Alexander Brothers Found Guilty of Sex Trafficking www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...
Freedom can feel permanent when you’ve never seen it disappear.
Political refugees know better.
Their memory reminds us why freedom must be protected.
Memory protects freedom.
New essay: open.substack.com/pub/theimmig...
Rhode Island Priests Abused Hundreds of Children Over Decades, Report Finds www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...
Too Little, Too Late? —
Under Pressure from Trump, Cuban Leader Calls for ‘Urgent’ Economic Change www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/w...
When I interviewed Victoria Alonso, then President of Marvel Studios, she described success in a way I’ve never forgotten.
It’s choosing the harder road — long after you no longer have to.
My latest essay, The Left Turn, is now live on Substack.
open.substack.com/pub/theimmig...
Last week, I began publishing on Substack.
With a simple intention: to share my personal observation of stories that matter. Stories that preserve memory. Stories that reveal how lives are actually built—not in theory, but in lived experience.
I invite you to follow.
substack.com/@theimmigran...
Before We Were "Latinos", we were from somewhere.
Cuban. Mexican. Colombian. Dominican.
We were not part of a category. We thought in terms of countries, towns, histories, and specific inheritances.
I wrote about what changed — and what may have been lost — in my latest essay.
Cuban Government Says 4 Are Killed in Gunfire Exchange With Florida Speedboat www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/w...
Most people live as if they have decades. Mike Fernandez chose to live seven days at a time.
This mindset helped him become a self-made billionaire, build and sell dozens of companies, and emerge as one of Miami’s leading philanthropists.
His story is now live on Substack. lnkd.in/eZtkH…
Justice Dept. Sues U. of California After It Refused to Pay $1 Billion Fine www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/u...
Policies are written in language. But their consequences are lived in human hearts—especially the hearts of children.
A nation ultimately reveals itself not by how it treats the powerful, but by how it protects the most vulnerable.
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I once interviewed a man who built a billion-dollar life based on a seven-day plan. Not a five-year plan. Not a ten-year plan. Seven days.
His philosophy was born not in business—but in free fall.
I’ll share his story this week on Substack.
Government records analyzed by The Guardian show that the majority—77%—of individuals entering deportation proceedings for the first time in 2025 had no criminal convictions, underscoring a notable discrepancy between official rhetoric and documented reality.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Immigrant children understand things early.
We learn to translate.
To adapt.
To carry responsibilities.
Today, I worry about them.
I worry about what they are seeing.
What they are hearing.
What they are beginning to understand about the country they call home.
open.substack.com/pub/theimmig...
Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Sharon’s story is one of terror, courage, and resilience — a reminder of the enduring human spirit that survives even in the darkest of moments.
‘Mom, if anything happens to me, I love you. There’s a war here.’ My mom called me like crazy, but I couldn’t answer her. No one really knew what was happening. We had no help. We were alone, running through an open field with missiles in the sky. Everything was a life-or-death situation."
“By 8:00 AM, I already felt like I was going to die. I felt like they were going to kill me because I was seeing people dying — people being killed right behind me. There was nowhere to go; we were surrounded. And I took a moment to write to my mother...
Today marks two years since the October 7th attacks in Israel.
In remembrance, I share this powerful testimony, translated from Spanish, from my Immigrant Archive Project interview with Sharon Truzman, a Venezuelan survivor of the Nova Music Festival massacre. (Thread)
Jimmy Kimmel’s Show to Return to ABC on Tuesday Night www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...
Not surprised. All of us who lived through that moment in time have been deeply affected.
My family left Cuba because we believed in the promise of America — freedom, opportunity, and the right to speak without fear. If we let censorship and intimidation take root here, we risk becoming the very society we once fled.
Democracy depends on the free exchange of ideas — even unpopular ones. We don’t have to agree with someone to defend their right to speak. We must protect open debate, or we will lose far more than we gain.
When I see people celebrate the deplatforming of those they disagree with, or when I see political leaders call for limiting certain voices “for the public good,” I hear echoes of the country my parents risked everything to escape.
I’m not saying the U.S. is Cuba. But I am saying that silencing people — whether through government action, corporate pressure, or online mobs — is a dangerous road. Once freedom of speech erodes, everything else follows.
Censorship wasn’t presented as censorship. It was presented as “protecting the revolution” and “combating misinformation.” That language sounded noble at first — until we realized it meant there was no space for dissenting voices.
In Cuba, the first thing the regime did was seize control of the media. Independent voices were silenced. Critical journalists were smeared, jailed, or exiled. Soon, there was only one “truth” — the one the government approved.
I was born in Cuba and lived through Fidel Castro’s rise to power. What I saw then still shapes the way I see the world today. And right now, what I see in the United States gives me pause.
ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
