Whitney’s Reviews > How to Say Goodbye in Cuban > Status Update

I don't know nearly enough about Cuba's history, but from what I'm seeing in this story, the author's parents and grandparents were of means and/or had a plantation and escaped to America because they were capitalist? I think it's wild they're pretending the US is a place "where you can be what you want to be, not just what the government says" but like...we ALSO had ration books and snitched on neighbors?