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Finding Your Roots
Raúl Esparza Reads His Grandfather’s Congressional Testimony
“The government instructed the Cuban Embassies of Madrid and London to Hunt me down and send me back to Havana”: Raúl reads from the transcript of his grandfather’s congressional testimony after he was forced to defect to America when his wife fled Cuba.
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