A Cuban family has fulfilled their dream of taking their 100-year-old grandmother off the island to give her a good life in the United States, thanks to the unique opportunity provided by the parole humanitarian program implemented by Biden at the beginning of 2023.
This is Victoria Domínguez Guzmán, who was received by her loved ones in the state of Nebraska last Saturday, January 20.
The independent medium Cubans around the World shared photographs of the elderly woman being received by her family with hugs and smiles at the Miami International Airport, where she arrived after leaving the ‘Ignacio Agramonte’ in her native Camagüey.
According to their relatives, they have been waiting for almost a year since the request for the parole for the old woman, but they did not lose hope of being able to keep her away from the misery that she lives on the Island.
The aforementioned independent media managed to contact Elier Morell, one of Victoria’s 13 grandchildren, who escaped from the Island as a rafter in 2007 and now resides in the city of Tampa, Florida.
He revealed that the elderly woman still has relatives in the Greater Antilles, and that, although it will be difficult for them to be without her, her loved ones in the United States were eager to have her with them.
“There in Cuba he has some relatives left, a daughter, three granddaughters and two great-grandsons. It’s going to be hard for them not to have her around. He parole “We gave it to him in February 2023 and we were eager for him to come,” he said.
Morell lost his mother when he was a child, and was raised with his sister by the old woman, so he very much wanted to be able to have her by his side outside the Island.
The family points out that Victoria was born in Vertientes, Camagüey, and that she married a Spaniard named Adolfo Moreira. However, when Castro came to power, the regime seized Moreira’s estate.
“In Vertientes they called him La Gallega, because of his connection with my grandfather Adolfo, and also La Guayabera, because he sold guavas in the neighborhood,” added his grandson.
The elderly woman is one of the thousands of people from Cuba who have been able to travel legally and safely to the United States with the help of the parole humanitarian, which, since January of last year, offers 30,000 humanitarian visas monthly to citizens of Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Haiti who have a sponsor in the United States.
While the elderly woman enjoys the company of her family in a country where the scarcity of food and medicine can no longer affect her, thousands of others continue to wait for the same fate, and for their recovery process. parole humanitarian aid is carried out to be able to leave the country without having to risk their lives at sea or crossing the American continent.
