From a torture cell in Africa to teh Kendall suburbs, the story of two Cuban doctors and their flight to freedom, via the Miami Herald:
Cubans relive journey to freedom
Two Cubans who made headlines by trying to defect in Africa are back in South Florida, working and living the Miami dream
BY ELAINE DE VALLE
The Highlands at Kendall is about 8,000 miles from the capital of Zimbabwe.
The two-story, suburban house with the shimmering pool, granite kitchen and new sports car in the driveway may as well be on another planet.
And though it has been six years since the two Cubans who live there were dragged from their beds by Zimbabwean soldiers and jailed for 32 days, Noris Peña and Leonel Córdova still relive the nights on a cold floor in a dark prison cell in Africa.
As they build their own version of the American Dream in a West Kendall community of comfortable cookie-cutter homes, the dentist and the doctor — who recently got a job with Baptist Hospital’s urgent care center network — still sometimes fear they will wake up back in the living nightmare in Harare.
Wow, what an awesome story!