Four years later, when Andy García Lorenzo was released, the Castro regime was still in power. The country was a worse place than before, with less electricity, less water and less food, or food that was more expensive. His neighborhood in Santa Clara was no longer the same either, or at least not the one he had known until the age of 23, when Cuba’s political police imprisoned him. The house remained unchanged, “as if frozen in time,” but his grandmother had died, his parents had grown old, the neighbor he had left behind as a child was now a teenager, and the one who had been a teenager had either already left Cuba or was looking for a way to leave. García Lorenzo had changed too. Prison did not tame him; if anything, it hardened him and made him “freer.” The events of July 11, 2021, still echo in his mind.
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