Persecuted By Military
Thank you. Thank you again. Hey, guys, we will get started here in a few moments here.
So I know you're in Florida. How's the weather been down there? I know it's been hot for us here in Georgia. It's 80 right now.
But then when the Vatican II changed the Church completely, the Catholic Church completely, and advocated for the social doctrine of the Catholic Church, and it became much—the Mass was in the vernacular language, and it was in Spanish, and it tended towards the left. There was a very leftist trend in the Catholic Church, due to the social doctrine of the Church. And I became very interested in the left, in socialism, and my dad was a staunch Thai communist.
And one of the travels that he took us to was to Russia, when Russia was still the USSR, and teach us what it was like to live in a totalitarian regime. But I was blinded by a Catholic altruism. So I tended to be very leftist.
And we had many arguments with my dad, and he would respond, Por qué no te vas a vivir a Cuba? Why don't you go and move to Cuba? And it was always a battle between him and I. And I had my faith, and I had my spirituality, but at the same time, I was immersed in this very widespread Catholic leftism, like even liberation theology. And I couldn't see anything different. That's what I was immersed in.
So when I started studying, mostly when I came here to the United States, I was much older. I came here when I was 33. I was married already and had two daughters.
I came here to pursue. Well, before that, I couldn't stand. It was very difficult to live in Argentina because it was so oppressive in the 70s.
So at the end of the 70s, I traveled to Europe. I lived in Paris and in Rome for a long time. And in Paris, there were many Latin American exiles, people who had to leave the country because they were persecuted by military dictatorships or whatever.
