Ana Lázara Rodríguez, a former Cuban politician, says that the struggle to stay at home has “been a nightmare.” A fight that, he now says, is hopeful.
“At least I have the possibility to fight, because I am in a country of laws, that at least being a poor person I can fight in the courts.”
And it is that Rodríguez, 82 years old, who served 19 years in prison as a political prisoner in Cuba, received the support this Tuesday of the state senators Annete Tadeo and Ilena García, while fighting against the banks, in a mortgage lawsuit that began in 2009, after receiving a so-called predatory loan, in which the payments and the amount owed increased.
“Senator García and I are here in a bipartisan way to say the struggle of people like this great fighter should be something that unites us and that has no party,” says Tadeo.
Ileana García, state senator, assures that “we want justice. We want equity and we want her to be an example for other people who may somehow find themselves in the same situation ”.
“If my case is won, many people’s will win,” says Rodríguez.
Rodríguez, who bought the house, along with a deceased friend, near 8th Street in southwest Miami, could not afford the loan payments. A mortgage that was fraudulently sold from one bank to another, according to attorney Bruce Jacobs, who represents her free of charge.
“People should not be removed from their homes due to a fraudulent foreclosure and not during a pandemic,” said Jacobs, who said he was optimistic, after the support of public officials and before a hearing in court next Friday, where he will defend Ana Lázara.
“At least now I have some hope,” Rodríguez said.
Next Friday, at 3:30 p.m., a hearing will take place in which to prove that there was fraud, there could be hope for Ana Lázara Rodríguez.
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