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Janet Cuni grew tired of arguing with relatives whose ideologies aligned with the dictatorship in Cuba, so she searched for a way out.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She found her answer in 1997. The then 20-year-old took a job as a crew member for Corsica Ferries-Sardinia Ferries and acquired a temporary living permit in Spain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fifteen years later, Cuni entered the United States through the Mexican border and applied for political asylum.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI went through a lot to get to this country,\u201d said Cuni, who is now 44.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, she is a political science student at the <\/span>Eduardo J. Padr\u00f3n Campus in Little Havana, but her heart remains in Cuba.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Janet
Madame President: Janet Cuni, who immigrated to the United States in 2012, is the college-wide president of the SOS Cuba club. DANNA QUINTERO\/THE REPORTER<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This fall, Cuni helped create the SOS Cuba club, a college-wide organization based at North Campus. Its focus is to spread awareness about the Cuban experience and advocate for human rights.<\/span><\/p>\n

The idea to start the club blossomed in July after the protests in the streets of Miami<\/a> <\/span>and the Caribbean island called for an end to the 62-year-old dictatorship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Miami Dade College political science professor Richard Tapia, whose parents fled Cuba in 1968, led the charge. He agreed to serve as advisor.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI felt the right thing to do was to volunteer our time to form this club for the purpose of lending our voice to the freedom of Cuba,\u201d Tapia said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The club plans to participate in marches, lobbying, phone banking, social media awareness campaigns and collect donations for Cuba.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the future, they hope to host joint meetings with other MDC student organizations like SOS Venezuela and SOS Nicaragua.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Although SOS Cuba is already an official club<\/span>\u2014<\/span>it has 15 members<\/span>\u2014<\/span>they hope to eventually have branches at all MDC campuses with about 200 members college-wide.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cuni serves as the club\u2019s college-wide president and Patricia Urquiola, who is studying biology at Kendall Campus, is the college-wide vice president.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Cuban people deserve and demand their freedom and we\u2019re going to do what we can to assist them in achieving that,\u201d Tapia said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Urquiola understands what it means to break free from a communist mindset.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The 20-year-old was born in Pinar Del R<\/span>\u00ed<\/span>o and recalls seeing her friends and family worship communism while growing up.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCuba teaches you to love communism from the moment you are born,\u201d Urquiola said. \u201c[In Cuba] as long as you admire communism and you do more for it, you are seen as the best person ever and it even gets you recognized in school.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She left the island in 2019 after her mom filed the paperwork for her to come to the U.S. In January of 2020, she enrolled at the College and was astonished at the opportunity to pick her own classes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn Cuba, you don\u2019t get to make decisions for yourself,\u201d Urquiola said. \u201cImagine not questioning the things you are being taught. Imagine not being able to say what you think. Imagine not questioning what you want to do with your life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Tapia said his family knows too well about that oppression. His grandfather was a political prisoner in Cuba who was tortured after asking for an exit visa to leave the country and his father\u2019s uncles were held in La Caba\u00f1a, a fortress run by Che Guevara.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very passionate because we saw the suffering that our families went through,\u201d Tapia said.<\/span><\/p>\n

To get more information about SOS Cuba, contact Richard Tapia at <\/span><\/i>rtapia@mdc.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/span> or (305) 237-6683.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Human Rights Advocates: SOS Cuba club leaders pose for a photo at the Eduardo J. Padr\u00f3n Campus in Little Havana. Pictured from left to right are college-wide vice president Patricia Urquiola, college-wide president Janet Cuni and advisor Richard Tapia. DANNA QUINTERO\/THE REPORTER<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Janet Cuni grew tired of arguing with relatives whose ideologies aligned with the dictatorship in Cuba, so she searched for a way out.\u00a0\u00a0 She found her answer in 1997. 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