About Ben’s Humble Beginnings
“My father was a Lieutenant in the Cuban Navy, before the rise of Communism. When Castro came out of the mountains promising prosperity for everyone, at the price of freedom, my father saw the evil for what it was and decided to do something about it. My father saw Castro’s true intentions and mutinied against Communism. For his efforts my father was sentenced to death but managed to escape to that ‘shining city on a hill’, the United States of America.” –Ben Loyola
Ben and his mother and were kicked out of the house and all their records were seized. They were allowed to keep only one suitcase worth of clothes. They managed to leave the country for Madrid, Spain while his father made it to the United States. Painfully, they couldn’t join him until they got the records back. Ben’s grandfather, a member of the Cuban military, stole the records from the Communist government and got them to the Swiss embassy. This Swiss were able to get the records out of Cuba and enable Ben and his mother to join Ben’s father in freedom.
