Behind The Scenes Look at the Cuban Embassy Opening
“It’s only a matter a time”, said Javier Dominguez, a Cuban government official in 2003 when the Bush administration just about carved out all permissible travel categories to Cuba. Not even a surviving war hero from the battlefields of Fallujah, Iraq would be allowed to visit Cuba to see his children before being sent back for another tour where he thought he would not return. I was inspired by Javier’s optimism. After all, his whole life existed under the U.S.