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Cuban Brothers' Identity Switch Backfires
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Jun 08, 2005 12:40pm |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Wednesday, June 8, 2005 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | HAVANA - Bernardo Heredia fled communist Cuba a decade ago, and this year loaned his lookalike younger brother his U.S. residency documents to help him do the same.
But what started in March as an act of familial love became a full-blown sacrifice when Cuban authorities got wise to the ploy and refused to let the elder Heredia leave the island, effectively switching the lives of two brothers.
Now, Heredia is living with his younger sibling's wife and child, plotting an ocean escape similar to the one he went through in 1994.
"This is a nightmare," Heredia, a U.S. resident who was born just 13 months earlier than his brother, said Tuesday outside his mother's small apartment in western Havana. "I feel as if I were in prison."
It began when Heredia, 42, found out his younger brother, Fidel, planned to leave Cuba by sea. Heredia vividly remembered his own hellish, seven-day journey across the Florida Straits and devised what he thought was a foolproof way to avoid it.
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