What efforts did Cuba make to help Ethiopian immigrants adjust to Cuba?
Everything was set up. Cuba has been supportive within their own means. They built a school just for the Ethiopians initially, then other Africans were also educated there. When you go to Cuba, though, they still speak Amharic and are still tied to Ethiopia. For the most part, they don’t have children and are not married, mainly because they’ve been waiting to leave. It puts you in an awkward situation. You’re thinking “I’m not sustaining a living for myself”… they haven’t settled down or put down roots. Only a few have gotten married or are in relationships where they have children. They’re living on the strings of hope. Some of them have been continuously waiting for papers for seven years. They still have their Ethiopian passports. TADIAS: Although The Unhealing Wound focuses on those Ethio-Cubans still in Cuba, I understand there have been a number who have managed to leave Cuba and live elsewhere. When did they leave and where do they live now? The Special Period [after the collap
