Flight to Freedom Author:Ana Veciana-Suarez When Communist ruler Fidel Castro tightens his hold on Cuba in 1967, Yara Garcia and her family are forced to flee to Miami, FL. There Yara encounters a strange land with foreign customs. — Author Ana Veciana-Suarez was born in Havana in 1956, and she immigrated to Florida at the age of six. She drew on her own experiences to write this moving st... more »ory of Yara's exile and adjustment to life in a less traditional country.« less