Before Fidel made his revolution, Cuba was very different from the one we know today. It was better in some ways but much worse in others. The people who lived in the mansions of Old Havana and in Miramar, for example, or the owners of the sugar cane plantations, the best and largest businesses, the Cuban bourgeoisie in a word, were the ones who had to go into exile with the arrival of the revolution. Some were wealthy bourgeois, others artists, others homosexuals, others simply dissidents from the ideological path that the island had taken.
Thus, today there are many famous Cubans around the world but the vast majority barely remember what it was like to live in Cuba because they emigrated when they were little, following their parents. One of them is the current Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, María Teresa Mestre, the daughter of fortunate parents was born in the Cuban capital in March 1956. She left with the revolution and only returned to Cuba in 2002 with her sister and for personal reasons, but her big dream is to go to the island with her husband and children. Another of the rich and famous Cubans, this one in the world of finance, is Alberto Villar. Vilar was born and raised on the island as the prodigal son of one of the largest sugar entrepreneurs. With the revolution they went into exile to the United States and there Alberto became a bundle of Wall Street being today not only one of the richest Cubans in the world but also one of the richest men in the world in general.
There are other successful and wealthy Cubans, who either were rich in Cuba before the revolution or made their own fortune in the world outside of Cuba. It seems that there are more than 1000 Cuban millionaires. Million more, million less, what a mania to classify someone for the money they have!
They need to clarify that that supposed wolf of wall street did not even become a pet. Alberto Vilar is serving a prison sentence for being one of the biggest thieves on wall street and for embezzling his clients. I worked in the company that cleaned his house-museum. The day my supervisor introduced him to me, Vilar didn't even look at me, he even shook my hand, turning to someone else so as not to even look at me, and I thought, "Someday you have to be worse off than me because of rude and rude racist «and then I laughed at myself telling myself that this man is going to be worse than me with so many millions and years later I realized that if he would be worse than me for several years in jail. Vilar has always lied about his origin, he was not born in Cuba, he was born in New Jersey, that is what his passport says. It's a crap man