A Cuban couple and their daughter have resettled in a small Serbian town after fleeing Cuba five years ago.
Belquis Gonzales works at a butcher shop in a small Serbian town of Lajkovac, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. While most Cuban citizens who wish to emigrate go to the United States or to Spanish-speaking nations, Gonzales and her husband chose Serbia, a rare country in Europe where they didn't need visas.
“We didn’t know anything about Serbia,” Gonzales told The Associated Press at the family's home in Lajkovac, a town about 80 kilometers southwest of the Serbian capital, Belgrade."We had many doubts and many fears as well, but things have been a lot better than we had expected.” Mirjana Milenkovski, who works in Serbia for the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR, said just 3,700 people have formally applied for asylum in the country since 2008, while 212 have received it.
Even as Serbians have emigrated in large numbers for more prosperous countries, Gonzales said her family is happy with its new life.Though Cuba resembles a Caribbean paradise to outsiders, life there is difficult and the system does not “favor the people at all. It rather limits them,” Gonzales said.
“What I like most about this country is that you see all the seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter," Gonzales said. “We have our friends and we enjoy each other’s company or birthday parties....We get along with everyone,” she said. “Everyone knows that we are ‘the Cubans.’”
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