Diaspora cubana: Madre e hija se reunen despues de 32 anos

 

Courtesy of Amalia Dell Amico/ Hortensia Hernandez, 68, left, of Union City, is reunited after 32 years with her daughter, Amalia Dell Amico, 50, who she left in Cuba.

By Charles Hack/The Jersey Journal

GUTTENBERG -- After 32 years, a mother and daughter reunited in Guttenberg late last month.

Both native Cubans, Amalia Dell Amico, 50, has lived in Germany since 2002; while her mother, Hortensia Hernandez, 68, moved to the U.S. in 1980 and has lived at the Palisade Nursing Center on Boulevard East in Guttenberg since 2005.

Dell Amico lost touch with her mother shortly after Hernandez left Cuba. And until two years ago, she thought her mother was dead.

But then Dell Amico's son called her from Cuba. He told her that Hernandez had written to the family, hoping for a reunion.

"I cried and I was very excited. It was a very, very big moment or me." Dell Amico said Thursday through a Spanish interpreter at the nursing home.

Dell Amico, who was 16 when her mother left Cuba, located a phone number for the nursing home though the Internet and began regularly speaking to her. But it would be two years, before Dell Amico, would raise enough money to make the trip to the U.S. to see and touch her mother again.

The joyous reunion occurred Saturday, June 30.   More >>