This is a plug for the Devil´s Excrement´s author,
Miguel Octavio. His last post, "Venezuela Drifting Away from the World", is one of his better pieces. It describes his last trip from Caracas
to Aruba.
Miguel Octavio´s blog, The Devil´s Excrement, is a must read for
those who want to understand what´s going on in Venezuela. I added this post to
my list “Highly Recommended Heartbreakers” because it reminded me of the way
things were when I left Cuba.
You see, my departure from Havana was quite similar. We had a
nightmarish set of checks and were treated like animals by government
officials. I was on a special KLM charter carrying 152 children and four Dutch
adults who came along as chaperones. The plane was a DC-8, something like this:
KLM DC-8 at
Amsterdam´s Schiphol Airport.
As was customary, once the plane lifted off from the
runway nobody said a word, and we counted the minutes until the pilot
announced: “We have now reached the point of no return, if the plane breaks
down we will land outside of Cuba”. At that point all of us started cheering
and hugging each other. We had escaped.
References:
Miguel Octavio´s Blog, The Devil´s
Excrement is here
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Thank you for the plug!!!!
ResponderEliminarNo. Thank you for writing so well over the years.
ResponderEliminar