Whereabouts are you from?
furazolidone (furoxone) LOYOLA: Well, I want to thank the American people on behalf of my family and on behalf of all Cuban-Americans in this country really for taking us in, for taking our families in and, you know, for treating them with dignity and generosity after the very bitter betrayal of the Cuban Revolution. Just how many Cuban-Americans remember that. I mean, that's something that a lot of people don't appreciate outside of the Cuban-American community is, what a painful legacy of betrayal my parents' generation, and especially my grandparents' generation, have carried with them all of these years. You know, these were all people in the middle-class, broadly supported Castro before he came to power. And at the beginning, after he came to power, and then Castro started to show a side that people don't know outside of Cuba, which is a very controlling and sadistic side. When he started throwing people in prison and taking people off to the stadium for mass executions and carting people off on the back of pickup trucks to the wall. It wasn't just his betrayal. It was also the fact that so many Cubans, even Cuban teenagers, running after the trucks yelling, to the wall, to the wall, as if it was some kind of entertainment. And that's something that - I mean, just imagine, you know, your people turn against you in such an unexpected way. Then, to come to this country, like my mother did in 1962 at the age of 13, with nothing. I mean, the communists didn't let any of those people take anything. And they came here, and, you know, through different charities and religious organizations through the church and different things, they were able to find a decent place to live. They were able to find decent jobs. They were able to put their kids in decent schools. And little by little, Cuban-Americans took advantage of those opportunities and worked their way out of the penury that they arrived here in. And it's really a testament, not just to this country as a land of opportunity, but also to the generosity of spirit of the American people to take in so many. And I know that the Cuban-American experience is hardly unique. In fact, there's hardly an ethnicity in this country that hasn't been received here in the last hundred years - start with Ellis Island and all of that -with such open arms. And so I just want to thank the American people for taking my folks in.