Artistas cubanos votan en EE.UU

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Miles de cubanos nacionalizados en Estados Unidos ejercieron su derecho al voto en estos comicios presidenciales de este 5 de noviembre. Entre ellos, destaca un grupo de artistas emigrados en los últimos años y residentes principalmente en el estado de Florida.

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00:00Good morning, how are you?

00:03I'm on my way to a voting center.

00:06I think today is a very important day

00:09and that all of us who have the possibility

00:14and those of us who somehow feel like we have the duty

00:17and the responsibility to vote

00:20let's go out and do it.

00:22Let's exercise the right to vote,

00:24especially for citizens like me

00:28that we never had that possibility in our country,

00:32that it does not exist,

00:34it never existed and has not existed,

00:36the right to vote for what you consider

00:41that can be beneficial for the society in which you live.

00:47So it really is a privilege

00:50to have the opportunity to exercise,

00:54to have the right to vote.

00:56I feel fortunate to have made the decision

00:59to leave my country where there is a dictatorship

01:02for more than 65 years

01:04and to be here in this great nation

01:06embracing me and giving me the opportunity

01:09to have a new life.

01:10And today voting for whom I consider

01:13to be the President of the United States, you know.

01:17I have been satisfied for some time

01:20the joy of living in a free country

01:23where democracy exists and works.

01:26Thanks to this democracy,

01:28we have the legitimate right to vote.

01:32So one feels part of society,

01:36one feels happy for something

01:38that we could never do in our countries.

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