Cuba: Armando Perez

Armando Perez: "I call my daughter every week, even if it's just for her to say, 'Papi, I love you,'" said Perez, a thin man who left the island on a boat in 2008, according to Times Colonist. "They need to go back to Cuba to see their family," Benitez said. "I don't understand because my parents are here. Maybe if they were in Cuba I would go back." MIAMI - At a small store on Eighth Street near Miami's Little Havana, Armando Perez paid $25 to activate his daughter's cellphone in Cuba. Store owner Laura Benitez sat behind a glass window, typing in the phone numbers for Perez and others calling Cuba. Benitez, who fled with her parents shortly after the 1959 Cuban Revolution, doesn't have family in Cuba. Many of her clients, however, grew up under the communist system and immigrated in the last 10 years. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.