Raul Esparza on His Father's Disillusionment with Castro

Clip: Season 8 Episode 3 | 36s | Video has closed captioning.

“They really did think, ‘New government, new hope, new chance’ “: Raul Esparza describes his father’s and his uncle’s disillusionment with the new Castro regime in Cuba as it became more and more repressive.

Aired: 01/04/22

Rating: NR

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FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Season Eight is a production of McGee Media, Inkwell Media, Kunhardt Films and WETA Washington, D.C. Corporate support for FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Season Eight is provided by Ancestry and Johnson & Johnson. Support is also provided by Ford Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and by The Inkwell Society and its members Candace King Weir; Lloyd Carney Foundation; Jim and Susan Swartz; Sheryl Sandberg and Tom Bernthal; Anne Wojcicki; Hayward and Kathy Draper; and Nicole Commissiong and Darnell Armstrong. Major support is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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