http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/local/east-volusia/2010/05/30/saving-lives-in-paradise.html

....Then one day, when he was 5, military trucks appeared in the yard.
No one was allowed to leave the house until his grandfather was found.
"The mailman came and was detained. Eventually the house was full of people," he said. "I remember sitting next to a soldier on the couch and asking how the bullets worked."
It was Castro's revolution. His family was told they could cooperate, leave Cuba or be killed. They moved to Miami.