{"id":255447,"date":"2022-07-17T14:49:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T18:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=255447"},"modified":"2022-07-17T14:49:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T18:49:18","slug":"danielas-story-the-journey-to-the-united-states-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/migration\/danielas-story-the-journey-to-the-united-states-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniela\u2019s story: the journey to the United States (I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daniela S\u00e1nchez, a 33-year-old woman born in Caimito, Artemisa province, a lawyer by profession, recently married and without children, decided to set out for the United States last year: \u201ctoo much \u2018stubbornness,\u2019 too much secrecy, fear of being caught in an illegality when it is not possible to live any other way; in short, few options for the future.\u201d And that was how she organized and undertook her journey, selling whatever she could in Cuba and supported by family in the United States. This is the story of her \u201cjourney\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I left Cuba on February 8, 2022 with a seven-hour stopover in Panama, seven hours in Costa Rica, one hour in El Salvador and from there to Nicaragua, all by plane. Arriving in Nicaragua, the \u201ccontact\u201d for the trip was there, a person who took us by bus through Nicaragua until we arrived very close to Honduras. We stayed there in a place that had terrible conditions, we practically couldn\u2019t even lie down because we were all crowded together on the floor, on a dirt floor and in a house without windows where we couldn\u2019t bathe or look outside. Of course, they brought us food in a \u201cthermopack\u201d despite the poor conditions we were in.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"BRuHSFCQv2\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/society-cuba\/migrations-in-cuba\/new-migratory-wave-of-cubans-to-united-states\/\">New migratory wave of Cubans to United States<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;New migratory wave of Cubans to United States&#8221; &#8212; OnCubaNews English\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/society-cuba\/migrations-in-cuba\/new-migratory-wave-of-cubans-to-united-states\/embed\/#?secret=Q80yIVoTtS#?secret=BRuHSFCQv2\" data-secret=\"BRuHSFCQv2\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We set off from there, they put us on buses in groups. About five or six of those large buses arrived, of those large buses with a capacity for fifty, sixty people, I don\u2019t remember exactly, that crossed the border and transported us throughout Honduras.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The police stopped us there all the time. They told us that if we didn\u2019t give them money, they would return us to Nicaragua or take us prisoner. We went in groups of eighty, seventy people, we traveled in large groups, and there were rows and rows of buses, caravans of buses&#8230; In Honduras almost the entire journey was like this, until we arrived at a city, I don\u2019t know, I get mixed up with the names of places, imagine, but the crossing lasted almost a day, we hardly slept there, the whole time we went by bus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We crossed the border with Guatemala at night and they put us up in a hotel. Early the next day, they took us to a bus station, and we took one to the end of Guatemala and there it was the same process: \u201cmoney all the way\u201d for the Guatemalan police: twenty pesos, thirty pesos, fifty pesos, what they wanted to ask for, blackmailing us, if we didn\u2019t pay them, they would turn us over or deport us to Cuba. Although we knew there was no extradition because those countries cannot extradite people to Cuba, one is always afraid that they will arrest you, that they will return you to Nicaragua, and that is why one goes and gives them the money they ask for, because the objective is to reach the final destination and not return to Cuba. Many exclaimed on the way that they preferred to run out of money, even stay working in \u201cone of those countries,\u201d rather than return to Cuba.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Guatemala, near the border, they put us up in a small hotel. We were there for about two days because the guides told us that it was a bit difficult to go to Mexico. And, when we finally achieved it, the stay was much longer because I left Cuba on February 8 or 9, I was already in Mexico on February 14, and I just turned myself in at the United States border on March 6\u2026so my longest stay was in Mexico, 21 days or so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We spent three or four days in Tapachula<\/span><sup><b>1<\/b><\/sup><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in terrible conditions. They put us in a kind of warehouse with quilts on the floor, because they weren\u2019t mattresses, but quilts that, of course, had previously been used by a hundred thousand other people, imagine the conditions they were in. There we slept on the floor, although they gave us breakfast, lunch and dinner. It struck me that Tapachula did not seem like a Mexican city because of so many Cubans that were there: it was full, full of Cubans, it was such a large wave of Cubans that it seemed to me that I was in a marginal neighborhood in Cuba because of all the Cubans there, so many people that, when the food arrived at a little school that worked as an improvised dining room, there were \u201cqueues\u201d of thousands and thousands of people, thousands&#8230;. And when the day came to leave the city, everything was stopped because, according to \u201cthem\u201d (the \u201cpolleros\u201d), they had not been given the \u201cgreen light\u201d (by the authorities), and the day they finally put us on the transportation, a few groups left and not the thousands of people that were in the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There they divided us by warehouses and put us on trucks, sitting next to each other. We were all packed tightly together and our backpacks on the floor below us so that fifty people fit per truck. That day I saw about seven or eight trucks, you can imagine the number of people we were and, even so, more than half stayed in Tapachula.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From there they took us to another place where they took care of us because we were their \u201cmerchandise\u201d \u2014 because that\u2019s how I felt, like merchandise \u2014, and we stayed there for several days, also with many Cubans. They took us out in boats on an hour or a little more than an hour trip until we reached the coast, I think, of Oaxaca. When we made landfall, I had to make a very tedious trip in a 4\u00d74 van that I thought was going to kill us. I told myself: \u201cthis is how far we get,\u201d because we were going at an extreme speed and I felt that no one was going to come out alive\u2026but we survived and reached the city of Oaxaca.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From there we went by plane to the border, to Mexicali, and we arrived at a very desolate \u201ceight-lane\u201d type highway. I realized that we were already in the desert. We crossed a fence and walked for about four hours. It was a very arid place, and the journey was very tiring. The women sat down exhausted, there was a girl who fainted, another got asthma and we thought she would not be able to continue, and so on&#8230; I got very nervous when I saw that and started crying: a young woman, much younger than me, twenty-four years old, with that asthma attack and there was no way she was going to recover. Luckily, one of the guides had salbutamol and with that she perked up a bit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we arrived at a certain place on the border, the \u201cguides\u201d told us that they could not accompany us anymore because they could not be in that area, so we continued walking alone for about an hour and, according to the instructions they gave us, we knew that we had to go up a hill and then go down it to see \u201cthe Wall,\u201d<\/span><sup><b>2<\/b><\/sup><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and there we had to start skirting it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In that part of the journey we had to walk so much and the fatigue was so great that I thought I would never get to the place where that \u201cWall\u201d was: it was \u201cwalk, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk&#8230;\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And, when I was finally right next to the \u201cWall,\u201d I had to go around it on a very high hill, and that was when my strength ran out, so much so that I didn\u2019t want to walk anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think I was able to get there thanks to the men who were on the \u201cjourney.\u201d They encouraged me and took me by the hands and practically carried me because I said I couldn\u2019t take it anymore, because it was a too long a walk! Imagine, through the desert, and where we permanently sank into the sand, which was very soft. In addition, we got into holes, we fell, we were covered in thorns because of the number of bushes with thorns there, of cacti that are in the desert, no, no, no, no way, it was horrible. I think it was one of the worst things, the end; for me it was the worst part of the journey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There the men had to help the women because it wasn\u2019t just me who couldn\u2019t go up the hill, which was immense, an enormous hill, and the sand did not help you because it was desert sand, the kind you sink into, you fall all the time&#8230;. All I did was hold myself with one hand from the bars of the wall, while a man pushed my shoulder with the backpack from behind and another helped me with the other arm in front. Then, when we went around the \u201cWall\u201d we realized that we had to go down the hill again and everyone, even the men, sat down as if to say \u201cwe can\u2019t take it anymore.\u201d But everyone there, oh! I can\u2019t explain it to you, it was one of the deepest feelings, a very deep feeling because everyone was crying: crying and crying and crying&#8230; Because we realized that we had achieved it, that they hadn\u2019t come looking for us yet but now we were already on the \u201cother side,\u201d on American soil, and we immediately drew strength from where we didn\u2019t have any and we went down that hill like bats out of hell: everyone crying, everyone went quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly, and immediately they arrived.\u2026 they arrived in those little trucks, I don\u2019t know if you have seen them?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I remember as if it were today: he was a gringo boy, a blonde American; a blonde American young woman; and a tall, dark-haired, very nice boy, Cuban, by the way, who said that he had come there as a child and treated us very well. They told us \u201cWelcome to the Land of Freedom.\u201d Imagine! Everyone crying: men, women, everyone crying with joy&#8230; They told us to sit down, to take off our shoelaces, coats, things that we had double, the hair ties, the earrings in the case of women.\u2026 Then they gave us some \u201cnylons,\u201d some plastic bags to put the backpacks inside, the laces, things like that. They sat the women on one side and the men on the other, and we traveled many kilometers and it took us a long time to get there because it seems that one turns around, I don\u2019t know why, and nothing could be seen on the outside, only from some small holes&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To be continued.\u2026<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Notes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><sup><b>1<\/b><\/sup><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Mexican city belonging to the state of Chiapas and bordering Guatemala where there has been a significant number of irregular migrants in transit for some years, including Cubans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><sup><b>2<\/b><\/sup><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Refers to the wall that divides the Mexico-United States border.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That was how she organized and undertook her journey, selling whatever she could in 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