Figure 1.-- We have not yet been able to find a photograph of Luis as a boy.

Cuba has produced many heroes in the long struggle for freedom. The Children which came to America as part of Operation Peter Pan are all examples of those heroes (1960-62). One brave little Cuban boy stands out for special mention--Luiz Haza. President Donald Trump delivered an address in Miami (June 16, 2017) to highlight yet another of President Obama's failed foreign policy actiomns. President Trump sed the occassion to honor those who who have bravely suffered in Castro's fetid prisons. At the end of the address the President yielded the platform to Luis Haza, an accomplished violinist, educator, and human rights advocate who has played with the National Symphony Orchestra for decades. Haza’s story is an uplifiting saga in the history of freedom. Haza’s father was the the police chief of the eastern regional capital Santiago de Cuba. He was a poet and human-rights activist and chief of the national police department in that city. He criticized dictator Fulgencio Batista and supported a democratic regime. He and 71 others were executed by firing squad of course without any trial at the orders of Fidel Castro. Luis was pmly 8 years old at the time. Little Luis nine months later and only 9 years old took up the violin and through himself into music and his violin. Haza tells us "I had so much emotion pent up that music became my obsession. Since I could not express my feelings verbally, violin became my way of expression." President Trump explained that the Communist authorities 'saw his gift and wanted to use him for propaganda purposes.' Luis rejected offers to study music in the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites. When Communist authorities demanded that 12-year old Luis, give a performnce, he dis--providing them a rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. Those of us who have grown up in America with all is treedoms can not imagine the bravery that it took for a 12-year old boy to defy Cuba's totalitarian Communist establishment. Luis follow the trail of many other of his countrymen. His mother go the family out of Cub. They escaped to Spain and eventually reaching America (1964).

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