Guarione diaz biography

Guarione Díaz remembers his visits to the Cuban refugee camps at Guantánamo in the 1990s. He especially remembers the Cuban children who pleaded with him for their release.

I was vacationing in Europe with my family and I remember we were in Vienna and one evening when we returned to the hotel, I turned on CNN International and then saw the Coast Guard picking up the Cubans in boats and bringing them to Guantanamo and I said wow, “When I get back to Miami things are going to be really interesting.

And I think I arrived Saturday back to Miami and on Sunday I got a phone call from the White House and they said, “We are thinking of establishing the unbootsen position in Guantanamo.” My job in Guantanamo was not so much to help them adjust to life in the United States but to help them with humanitarian assistance and to improve the understanding and the communication between the government agencies, the military, the media, the relatives in Miami, to