![]() “We had to eat, but we had no money, so my mom made what we call duro frios - ice cubes with chocolate in them - and I sold them at the bus station and on the street, anywhere I could for a penny,” Fossas said. With Emilio Fossas gone, his wife Nelida had to find a way to care for Tony and his younger brother Misael. They were little more than labor camps, often in the country’s vast sugar cane fields, and if they didn’t work in indoctrination, they certainly did in punishment. The Cuban government called them re-education farms. They took my father off to farms to work and I only saw him a few times over the next couple of years.” “They looked at us like traitors just because we wanted freedom. “They called us gusanos - worms,” Fossas said. ![]()
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