The family of a Cuban father took to social media to report his death a few months after having managed to enter the United States with the help of the Humanitarian Parole Program implemented by President Joe Biden in early 2023.
According to the shared publications, the Cuban was identified as Abdel Pastor Romero, who lived in the town of El Cobre, in the province of Santiago de Cuba. The man left behind two girls after dying in a traffic accident that occurred in the city of Houston, Texas.
The comments made in the publication indicate that the man’s departure is especially difficult for his family due to the date, since he died on the same day that his mother celebrated her birthday.
“He arrived full of dreams and hopes like all of us who come to this country. When everything was beginning to be better for him, who had found a job and was beginning to get back on track, this misfortune happens and his life is taken away from him, leaving his loved ones in great pain,” wrote Internet user Tay Reyes, who lives in the US.
The user has started a request for help, as the family needs to raise funds to deal with funeral expenses.
In that sense, he called on the Cuban community inside and outside the Island to support them with whatever was possible, since Pastor Romero’s family wanted to repatriate his remains to the Island to say goodbye to him in his homeland.
“His entire family is in Cuba, his two girls, wife and mother, are destroyed. Please, with what you can, everything counts, the idea is to pay for the cremation and send him to Cuba so that his loved ones can say goodbye to him,” added the user.
Dozens of Internet users regretted the event and assured that the man was a very good person. In that sense, they also requested the support of the community, since they considered that his family deserved to say goodbye to him in Santiago de Cuba.
“Help, please”; “The family is without comfort. We trust that all the copper workers around the world will support us” and “God allow that at least family and friends can have your remains,” were some of the comments made.
