Day 2
Didn't sleep too well, might have to find a hotel. Need to find an internet hook up.
e-mailed two of my contacts but haven’t heard anything back.
Triton (a classmate) called and took me all around Miami and gave me a lot of history. How the Cuban community has come to dominate the city, talked to someone with a boat who had gone to cuba several times – said that we just need to pretend that we went fishing, but he hasn’t gone recently, during the time of Bush’s more intense restrictions. Talked to several other Cubans, Maggie is the dean of Triton’s school who just went recently after not going since she was exiled at age 7, she talked about the poverty, and how things are getting worse, she was very convincing, and it made me question the project and she has traveled widely. She was against the embargo, but said she couldn’t imagine anyone going to Cuba to live a better life, because it simply wouldn’t be a better life, primarily because of the poverty and shortages. She told a story about how in order to get milk for her coffee, a family member had needed to bicycle to a farm outside of town. She mentioned that crime was on the rise, although no one had guns. She said people were more openly speaking out against the regime. Another Cuban friend of Triton said she would be disowned if she ever went. It seems like there’s an incredible story, just about the relationships among Cubans in Miami.
It’s an exiled community but one which has wealth and power, and who gets catered to by the presidency of the US. We weren’t able to get into the film archives, or to reach any leftist Cubans , and I haven’t gathered any video yet. I would like to go to the river today to see if I can talk anyone into going to Cuba. Maybe I will move to a hotel in Little Havana.
e-mailed two of my contacts but haven’t heard anything back.
Triton (a classmate) called and took me all around Miami and gave me a lot of history. How the Cuban community has come to dominate the city, talked to someone with a boat who had gone to cuba several times – said that we just need to pretend that we went fishing, but he hasn’t gone recently, during the time of Bush’s more intense restrictions. Talked to several other Cubans, Maggie is the dean of Triton’s school who just went recently after not going since she was exiled at age 7, she talked about the poverty, and how things are getting worse, she was very convincing, and it made me question the project and she has traveled widely. She was against the embargo, but said she couldn’t imagine anyone going to Cuba to live a better life, because it simply wouldn’t be a better life, primarily because of the poverty and shortages. She told a story about how in order to get milk for her coffee, a family member had needed to bicycle to a farm outside of town. She mentioned that crime was on the rise, although no one had guns. She said people were more openly speaking out against the regime. Another Cuban friend of Triton said she would be disowned if she ever went. It seems like there’s an incredible story, just about the relationships among Cubans in Miami.
It’s an exiled community but one which has wealth and power, and who gets catered to by the presidency of the US. We weren’t able to get into the film archives, or to reach any leftist Cubans , and I haven’t gathered any video yet. I would like to go to the river today to see if I can talk anyone into going to Cuba. Maybe I will move to a hotel in Little Havana.
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