The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – GIs Confess by John Sancandi

Episode Date: September 5, 2026

GIs Confess by John Sancandi https://www.amazon.com/GIs-Confess-John-Sancandi/dp/B0H8FMJ8Q6 A stolen masterpiece. A troubled veteran. A conspiracy that could change the world. Ed Smith has spent years fighting battles no one else can see. A Marine veteran haunted by PTSD, crippling self-doubt, and disturbing dreams that seem to predict the future, Ed struggles to separate reality from imagination. When a mysterious woman appears at his door claiming that a stolen Monet painting is connected to a plot that could trigger an international crisis, Ed is forced into a world far more dangerous than any nightmare. As political tensions rise, secrets unfold across Washington, and powerful figures maneuver behind the scenes, Ed finds himself at the center of a deadly conspiracy involving art theft, deception, espionage, and global power. The problem is simple: No one believes him. Not even Ed is certain he can trust himself. With time running out and the stakes higher than ever, one damaged veteran may be the only person capable of stopping a catastrophe that threatens far more than his own future. Fast-paced, thought-provoking, and packed with unforgettable characters, GIs Confess is a gripping thriller about courage, redemption, and the fine line between intuition and madness.

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Ramon E. Garcia. He joins us in the show. How are you, Ramon? Welcome the show, sir. Hey, quick. Thank you for invitation. It's a pleasure to be in your program. I'm very impressed to see the way you operate. And we're impressed and wonderful to have you with your wonderful book and your insights

and your story of your life. Give us any dot-com's websites. Where do you want people to find you on the internet? It's in Amazon, in Facebook as well, and I think we'll be all over. right now also in my personal email, which is Ramoni Garcia atadmail.com, and very soon will be all over, according with the people who help me out to write the book. Awesome, sauce.

So give us a 30,000 overview. What's inside your book, sir? Inside the book is about my life history. I came to the United States. I escaped from Cuba in a small ferry. I was the king with ideal. I was the one who assaults the escape from Cuba. We hijack a ferry full of passenger with a 45 pistol running away from the military service in Cuba.

Why we have to do that is because I come for the middle-class family. My father was a small businessman. But I was in the sporting produce from Cuba to Miami. He was doing well. He was pro-Castro in the beginning when Castro took over the island. what the first thing they did. Confiscate my father's warehouse. Confiscated his two trucks that I have to deliver produce.

And the Sria sat is where my father asking, what I want to do now after you take everything from me? And the common said, Mr. Garcia, you can work for us if you want. You can run the business, but we want to be in charge. And my father asked how much you want to pay me. You take everything from me. Mr. Garcia, we're willing to pay you three pesos per business. day if you work for us. And that's the higher salary in Cuba at that time. I see this in three

pesos per day after he confiscated two trucks that I was doing with his house, a warehouse full of merchandise. And the real sad is that when I went back to Cuba in 1970 with my mother-in-law, my wife, because I got married in New York City. My wife is Cuban-American. We met, we knew other from Cuba. I got married in 1970. And then we decided to go to Cuba after that. And the first thing we did. I got as I was answered to go to our home to our hometown and see how everything was after we left. I went to the warehouse and I saw the warehouse empty full of my and roaches. That what is this? It's full of mice and roaches. Now you have to do it. Everything destroyed. We have to give the sister. The two trucks disappeared and when you lose your dream and you lose you because my dream

was to be a businessman like my father. And I was like what I came to. And I remember when you lose everything you have and you dream, in real, the life lose the value. That's what we decided to escape from Cuba. And we did that. And it's a miracle the way we survived because we had jack a ferry full of passenger because we were facing military service. The only way, and Castro said very clear in 1967, any young people, any, any, Anybody who will leave the island, they could leave the island, no problem. But those young men from 18 to 26 cannot leave the island.

They have to serve military service first. Wow. So I got my country. I have four sisters, a little brother. So I was a problem maker because I was 18 years old at that time. And my father don't want to leave the island without me. Although I saw my father talking to my mother. My mother said, let's leave the island.

and there are no future here. Let's go back to the United States, and then we start a new life again, which is true. But my father said, the only thing I leave the island, if I take Ramon on my son with me, otherwise we all stay. So I noticed when I went to,

I was starting being an administration, in private school in Cuba, in my home city, and the first comment, it took over the closest school, and they said we have to do the service, military service and then I decided to go to Moa. Mois is a nickel bay and they were asking for employees there. I was starting being in administration and accounting. So I went to, I went to Moa,

which is about, we said, 50 miles from our town, our town. I applied for a job and they give me a job. So I stay there and living there. So I start making my living more. And people there was running away from the system because we all were listening to serve the military service and I made this guy complaining about the system. They all were my age and we go and then we decide when they were in the ocean if you see the book that I wrote and my friend was with his girlfriend Friday and Friday and a plane came up top of my head and I said to Otto Otto you see that plane you think you have enough gut to. go ahead and assault that plane and force that to train to take us to Guantanamo Bay,

so it would be safe there? And he said, yes. And then he never, he never answered. But Farida said, yes, yes, yes. I go, I go, we go. My father, my brother, wanted to live, they are better upset with Castro. They helped Castro. My brother, they have a 45 pistol, and I'm pretty sure to do that.

So that's what we start organizing. But what happened? From Moa to Baraco to Preston, what Friday was from was at this thing about an hour in plane. So she said, I go back to my city. I'm going to talk to my brothers. I want to come.

So she did. She went when she went back for the weekend because she used to go every month and we'd come back to work. She said, Ramon, the problem is, it was in the plane. Going Friday and Friday flying from Moa to Preston. And I saw,

So a medicine guy with the machine guns by the interest of the of the of the of the of the of the cabinet and I think it's impossible to do that. So then everything went sour. But then we were to remember one day we were to Otto, my friend, we were in the we used to have dinners together and lunch and dinner. So we went dinner. We were by the cost and we decided to go to the pier. I went to the pier.

And I said, although those ferry, those ferry park there with people in and out. So I decided to say, oh, what about if we make a tour from here, go to from here, from Moa to Barakoa? Because Barakoa, I was hurt. We have good excuse me. Paracoa has beautiful women. And we are here working in the nickel and nickel main, nickel mine, and only men here. No women here. So we have any excuse to go to do the cruise and go to Baracoa, which he did.

We did the first expedition as a friend. We became a friend with the owner of the boat or the ferry. And I remember our first street, the distance from Moa, where we were working to Baracoa was four hours. During four hours, the ferry made two full stop by cost. Those people live in those people that are fishing. fishing. They live on the fish. There are a small little town. People were living there. So the first stop they make, and we were shaking everything. And we saw this Minisian guy got in the boat, but he was down dizzy, without the train because he was so dizzy vomiting. The machine gun was laid down far away

from him. He said, here would be no problem because the wave was too bad and people was getting dizzy, smending all those smell from the from the morrow. Good thing we became friend with the owner

of the ferry because if you see the boat, the boat have a second floor. People go on top the boat to please fresh air. So that's what we were going.

So that was an expedition cruise first. And then when we went there, we became good friend with the owner because we were, we have a special ID ID in us. We were the VIPs.

We are picked gay. We are being employees because we're working for the mine. We're having an ID in our chest with the name of Moa, Bay of Moa. And then also the name was the general. The castle used to be captured Castro General that he died. And they put his name in the little ID. They put his name was Bahia Minera in Spanish. And then Commandante General Pedro P. Soto Alba. I remember the name Perksson.

exactly the idea that we have. With that idea, we can go over the cubo with no question to ask. So that we're using that idea. One thing, we make an expedition boat to see how the system work, and we decide that was a good idea, but the problem is, I said, what happened then? Well, I can get the fluid, because if we're going to, if this is, we're going to the least, going to be in the ocean,

maybe 15 hours, we need to see how much fluid we have from the boat. So when we came friend to Mario, Mario was the name of the owner, the name of the owner of the boat of the ferry. I answered Mario. See, I just wondered, what happened? Where do you get the fluid? I see nothing. I don't see nothing around here. I don't see no station for you to have service in your boat.

Oh, Ramon is because here in Baracoa, the government gives us enough fluid to go back and fall, to go back to Moa, back to Baracoa. which I figured was 10 hours. I said, we said to, we said, we have to assault that boat and take over the hijack the ferry in Barakor because if we do it in Moa, we're going to have half a tank. We might need something. I was 19 years old.

And when I keep thinking, keep thinking, Ramon, it's a podcast. We have to have a back and forth. You're just giving a speech speech right now. Okay. And we don't need to know everything play-by-play in the book. We want to tease out the book so the people want to buy it. So what year was this that this took place when you guys escaped in Cuba? 1970.

1970. When it was in the book, we escaped in 1963, December, December 19, 1963. I'm sorry, if I made a mistake. Yeah, wild time. It was in December 19, 1963. We are right to Key West Florida in 1929, in the December, 1921. We arrived, I'm sorry, back in Florida from 63, the same three days after that.

We to hijack the ferry in December 19, 1963, we arrived in Key West Florida, December 21st, 1963, three days after. Oh, wow. Wow. And so that must have been, you were 19 years old at the time. How, how you're, anybody can turn you in that you're trying to, when you're in a situation like that, there's anybody that can turn you into the government because they try and get everybody to turn everybody into the government, right?

And so you're trying to figure out conspirators and people that can help you leave the island, but it's got to be quite dangerous, right? Exactly, because if we got caught, we were facing, we were facing, uh, uh, no electric chair. with execution. Wow. They would execute a lot of people because they do it not just for hijacking. I got a friend who went to try to help destroy Castro and they got to execute.

To hijack a place like that, they will, if they catch us, they will, they will execute us the day after. They don't wait no time with us because they try to use that as an example, an example. the executioner I was facing to be executed. But what happened? I come for, I have four sisters, and my brother at that time was 50 years younger than me. And Castro said, anybody can leave the island if they want to, but those young men from 18 to 26, they have to stay and do the military service. So I was forced to stay in Cuba because I had to do the military service first. I had to do the military service first. first from 19 to 26. And my father was, my father told my mother very clear,

if Ramon don't live with us, we don't go. And that's why I was answered to do that because that was the only way to bring my family over to the U.S. and be free. Oh, wow. Yeah. So you guys come to the U.S. and you build a new life here. Was it challenging when you first came to the U.S.?

A lot because no English at all, although Miami is 50, 50, 50. Everybody speaks most of the majority of people, speak Spanish. I got lucky that I have an uncle. My father, my brother, who was a steward, and he was in the Miami Beach, a steward, and he was single, so he helped me out. What we need to help, what people to show me what to go, but find a job, and people give a little shelter, because the only thing we received from the government, when we had Jack the ferry in Miami,

they were giving us $3 per day. We stay in the hotel by the name Tamia. $3 per day, we have to have breakfast, lunch, and dinner. How could you do that? I don't know, but survive, it's a miracle we survive. But my uncle, the only thing I need from him to help me out with you to find me a job. So he helped me find a job there watching ditches at the hotel,

Tamiami. the hotel is, no, the hotel is in Dant, it's still there. I forgot the name of the hotel, but it's a hotel. When I gave my job to watch ditches there, I was making $45 per week. I make $2.90, enough to buy shoes, clothes, because I have no shoes and no clothes. We just came without naked because we don't want to intimidate the, that people to, tell the people to know what we're doing, we were doing. and to do something round.

But that's, that's, the name of the hotel in Miami was Carri-L-L-L-L-L-O-N, Car-R-R-L-L-N. Car-R-R-L-L-O-N. He's in Miami-Bitch in Miami-M-M-A-M-M-A-M-M-E-S-E-T-E-E-L-E-L-E-L-L-L-N. That's what was my first job watching Ditches, and that's how I started because my goal is to get a job, learn the English. as best as possible and bring my family, and I'm trying to bring my father, my family over, the main language is my father and,

my father, mother and sister. But what I learned is the English language, the restaurant language, that's what I'm trying, with a dictionary, I was trying to get a, be a busboy first to learn the business, and to make it then wait a to, you're on tip. You don't need to be, you English don't have to be so perfect, what you have to do,

understand what you customer one from you. And that's what I did. I was working away as a waiter. In Washington, D.C., I was one of the first waiter in 1965 as a waiter, banquet waiter, Sir Lyndon Johnson, when he became president after that in 1967, 1967. So I was, and then I brought my family from Cuba after that, and that's when I started my business. Thank you, God, and my uncle helped me, to give me shelter,

to show me where to go, and my uncle came to Washington after. that to work at the Hasewaieta here. And in January in 1964, he was here in Washington, D.C., and he brought me over. He said, come over, I got a job for you at the car, at the, of the Chorham Hotel,

what I was working as a waiter. So I came over to Washington, D.C. I gave me shelter in his room that he was renting, and in an attic, and that's why my life began. Everything started there. And then I started working,

as a wait at Washington Hilton Hotel in 1965. And then I made these Cuban people in New Jersey. They were in the gold business, selling wholesale. At that time, the ounce of gold per ounce, if you see it was $40 per house. So what I did, what I did, I started buying from those people because a cousin of mine was in New York, in New York City, he held me out. He said, look, I send you to, it's a Cuban fuel factory here in Bergenland Avenue, New You can buy gold from them and resell it at the store while you're working as a waiter because that was that what he was doing in New York City.

That's what I did. I went to he took me there to Bergenland Avenue, which is in New Jersey, Union City, New Jersey, which is walking distance from the Holland Talon, which is New Jersey right there. So that's how I started in business. I started buying from those Cuban people and resell it to my friends and call them. workers, the whole the Washington Hilton Hotel at that time has about 200 employees there. So that's what I was starting in this business,

working and selling jewelry. And the reason why, the restaurant working as a waiter, I got as a dinner, I got a meal from the government, from the restaurant, from the hotel, it provides you with meals as well. So

that's what I started. And then what I did, my father, my father was saying, everybody was in Cuba, I brought all of them in 1967. At that time, I had $3,000 in my saving account. I was living in a room because my uncle moved to New York, New York, I stayed by myself. I was paying with room $50 per month,

renting to this old lady apartment. She was giving me a room to stay, and that was paid $50. And that was the beginning of my life here. 67, I brought all my family from Cuba. And at that time, I have $3,000 in my saving account. I rented an apartment. I go back in 1967, beautiful, nice apartment,

central air condition, a swimming pool. I was paying $165 per month. Everything included. I put everybody, 10 people there, 9. Everybody, 1.5 people, 1.5 bathroom and 3 bedrooms. And my sister, I brought my sister with her husband, a little boy at that time. 9 altogether. It's in the book.

It's right there in the book. What I did, I took my father to work with me as a bus boy at the Hilton, and then I started selling jury to my co-workers at there. I was single at that time, and I got two younger sister. They went to a school. My little brother was six years old at that time. At school as well, my nephew, everybody got school. My sister was 21, and she started working as her dresser,

watching her, and that was the beginning of our life. My sister husband was graduating Q as a mechanical engineer. My sister was a chemistry engineer, so my sister stayed working, taking care of her boy because she was five years old. And my brother-in-law, I found a job for him as an engineer in Virginia, in Virginia, which is right across, very close. And that was the beginning of our life.

At that time, we started. Yeah, it's interesting. It's a lot of hard work. And you guys are trying to survive and build a life. But probably the conditions in, it's always interesting to me with people immigrate to this country, that they risk their lives many times to come here. But the conditions and the life is so bad where they're at. it's worth it. And you have to think about how bad does it have to be to where you have to say,

the only way for me to probably survive what's going on here is I got to leave. I got to leave my homeland. I got to leave my birthland. I got to leave everything I know behind and start over with nothing and then try and save your family and children too as well. And that's got to be quite daunting, I think, that experience. Nothing but it's true. Nothing but the truth. That's what I wrote that book because I got married New York City in 1970. My wife and I were friend in Cuba, but when I visited them in New Jersey, I became engaged with her. I married her in 1970. We have three kids. My younger kid is my oldest daughter. She's 54.

My then, my younger daughter, she's 40, 48. And my son is 46. They all born and raised here. They don't know nothing about Cuba. They know. They all they know is what I said, but they might. That book is to prove to them the course of living because when you lose your freedom, when you lose your dream, when you lose your hope, life lose the value. And that's the fact that people don't understand that because here in the United States, you have welfare if you cannot work. If you're sick, you're giving a free hospital.

People don't know what we have here until you live, if you come with a country like mine, to see the difference between freedom and be a slave. Yeah. Even if in Cuba right now, I went down to Cuba in 1970 with my mother-in-law. At that time, she was alive, and my wife, both four of us, we are from the same town. Oh, really? We are from the same town Oriente Cuba, which is about 200 miles from Havana. But in Cuba, we went back to our city.

We flew from here. And I decided when I go to see my father's warehouse, how it was. when I visited my warehouse in 1970 by myself because my wife went to her aunt house and I went there by myself I went inside the warehouse and you know what they have there? Nothing but mice and roaches.

Damn. And roaches was there. That does sound fun wrong. In Holguyen City, Holguine City I have my cousin. He was a year younger than me. We were up together together. the relationship between him and myself

because his mother is my mother's sister, his father is my father brother, and we were born in the same bed. And I remember when we were a kid, we used to play around, I used to have put a hangarship in his ear. Hangarship in his ear, he said, his name of Franzon.

I was like a five or six years old. What are you doing the hangarship in the ear? He said, because I want to be a doctor. You want to be a doctor? You know what? I want to be like my father. I want to be a businessman like my father. So you know what I'm trying to tell you, when we come to this earth, we came with a dream or be something, what you want to be?

And the real sad is that when in Cuba, we visited him at the hospital. He was the director of the hospital in City of Hulgin. He was the director of the hospital. And I remember when in with him, he was there with the dresser as the director of the hospital. And he said there were a big line of people trying to get service. So in the hospital they got a free medication. So they saw this guy with the turkey, another guy

with the chicken, another guy with the little pig. And there was a big line there. People making noise because nobody was attending then. And said, you did what you want to do turkey? Come over. You first. And then with the one with the chicken and then with the one because they were serving training food for medication. Oh, really? The salary that my cousin made

right now as a doctor, 30 pesos per day, $30 per month, $30 per month. How could you list as a doctor at $30 per month? That's when the doctor made in Cuba. We see so many doctors here. They're afraid to talk. But that's the Saturday in Cuba. It's no higher than, I think was 28, 29.

And that's why those people who are farmers, they raise in pig and houses and chicken and all that. When they go to the hospital, they bring all those things with them because that's the only way they're going to get service because they have to drink food for medication. And that's she's doing that. People don't know that because if they catch doing that, they put them in jail. They got to do under the table. Everything has to be secret. They have to be on the table. But that's the only way people survive in Cuba.

That's a hell of a way to live. Exactly. But you are not allowed to talk. That's why. So what you say, what I'm trying to tell you is when you lose your life, when you lose your dream, when you lose your freedom, life lose the value. It's like it's worth being in jail because when you are in jail here, they give you three times. You have three meals per day, and I'm witness of that.

I mean, with three meals per day, no problem. I'm in Chaplain. I was one of them. I know how they feel. That's why they put a book three times free. That's why that is why people don't know what we have in this nation in the U.S. of America. Yeah, a lot of people that are born here, they really take it for granted. And they don't understand how bad fashion.

communism and socialism runs. And right now we're kind of in that run. We're we've fucked around and found out what authoritarian and fascism is doing here in 2026. So you build a great business. You built a great life. And have you been, I know there was a time that Cuba kind of opened under Obama for a while and you could go there and visit.

Have you visited since 1970? When I escaped in 1960, I went prior or prior. Prime Obama to see what it is. Okay? Now, when you go as a tour, they want to show you the best. Because those people who control the government, who have the castro, be a bodyguard, they live well.

They live well. I talk about the population. At that time, when we escaped, were 12 million people. Castro people who go controlling countries, half a million dollars, a million people, but there are six and a half million people dying, hungry.

And people don't know. They don't know the meaning of that. because everything is a secret. And if you complain, they put you in jail. They put you in jail. I know that people don't want to complain because they're going to put you in jail. If you complain, you're wasting your time.

You're wasting your time. And that's what you see that happened. And that's what is true. Bahama could live, well, could make it. He was kissing. I would say he was kissing with Robert Castro because they knew how the system worked. Look at all, look at what they would.

Now, what we have in Miami, Marco Rubio is the father-in-mother was Cuban. They know this year also how people are suffering, and Donald Trump as well. Yeah. He's the only one to up to me. They are our only hope to see Cuba free. I will only hope.

I was only hope. I was only big. Maybe it's kind of interesting, the blockade of Cuba right now, and they're really suffering down there. Do you hear from people down there on what things are like with the kind of the blockade or embargo we have going with them? This block and embargo is still there because Castro,

what happened when Castro received something is for him and his own group. The people, the Cuban people don't get nothing. The only people get nothing. Castro, when received Castro, something is for him and his group. It's solely those people who watch his back, those people who live good. But the regular people, like a professional people, doctor, they are like a slave. You can see a doctor when they live.

the island, they come here. You know what they do? Castro sent people over to all over from Latin American, Venezuelan, all that. Prior to that, whatever they go, Colombia, there are a lot of Dr. Cuba, but Castro, the Castro said forced the Cuban to the government to pay Castro for the doctors. And he gives the doctor whatever they want. So the doctor had to do job on the, on the side because when Castro sent people to out of the country, they want to go on for that country to send the salary of the doctor to Cuba. And they want to care then. It's not the, they don't get that money.

So they got to do everything they do under the table. They help people to stay, and that's exactly how they work. They have to be under the table. But when Castro took the higher salary in Cuba, I have a cousin. He said he retired and it's a $10 per month. Oh. $10 per month.

$10 per month. People are retired. They're the salary. They're converting pesos if you're $10 per month. That's what you've got to do. How can you do with $10 per month? See, people, when you see the system, they talk, you can imagine when a 19 years old man like me and the rest of people, when we're going to.

When we escaped, we were involved five of us, okay? But the whole group was 21. Five of us, we did they hijack, okay? And we used force to gain freedom. We did not hurt nobody. We used force to gain freedom. What was the only hope? And that was December 19, 1963.

We had, we stay, we hijacked the ferry, the passenger. We came straight north through the ocean. Faye looking because it distant from where we were to, to Dominican Republic, standing out. and Jamaica is 90 miles. From there, from we're going to Oriente, the embassy, we have the Guantano Bay Embassy, but if you

will, we didn't want to go to embassy because the community will be waiting from us outside. So as they know, they were waiting for us outside the Guantanamo Bay thinking we were going to Guantanamo Bay, but we were trying to go either to Jamaica or Haiti or Dominican Republic and then

asked for political science. But we got lucky, that lucky, but at 90, we got lucky because at 11 o'clock we find a ferry a ferry boat because we have a friend of mine we have a flash light we start flashing the light at that big big ship that we saw in the middle of the ocean about 11 o'clock at night and the chef stop the ship stopped and wait for us that's the rest of the that's the one who help us and it's so important that because because of the of the, when we saw

us first was to be like a, look like God was there, was blessed to see that. Our only hope was lying, Lan in Dominica Republic on Haiti and asked for political science. But God, that both

helped us, that ship was a cargo chef coming out. I think they I don't know if they were coming out from Guantanamo Bay or what, but they are the other one who save our life. Wow. So as we round out the show, we're about done. Tell us what you hope people come away with when they read your book.

When you read me book, you have to put yourself in that book. What you would do because people, you have a lot of courage. Oh, Ramon, you have so much courage. But when you think about courage, I think I was a coward because courage is to stay there and fight back. But if I fight back, I'm going to be executed. It is by doing that, my, I'm going to be. to have a new life here and be able to have what I might dream. My dream is what I have now.

I have three Ulyfactory. I have 28 employees working here. Everybody's happy. You can see the rating that we have. And what happened, you have to search for you for what you want. You have to think in my situation, my father don't want me to do it. No, my father said, don't leave the island. I make them believe that.

But think that I left the island, I brought them over. I brought them off. Faster. And I was the object. Because Castro said any young man from 16 to 26 cannot leave the island. So by me doing that, if I die, if I die in the ocean, my father could come over after that because I was the only problem. My father, my wife, my father wanted to leave the island because of me. By me escaping and I drown, at least they can make it free.

But if I survive, I can help them, work here, save my mother. money like I did when I brought my family from Cuba, I have, I have $3,000 in my saving account. Cash, dollars. I didn't have nobody for nothing. The government did pay for the freight from Cuba to Washington, D.C. At that time, I got a Galaxy 4, 1962. Galaxy 4 was like a bus. I put everybody there.

Now that Galaxy 4 would look like a van. If you look like a Galaxy 4 for 1960, it looked like a bus. It was used, but... So that's the car. I used to go. I used to use that car, my car to take my son-in-law to work. I was working as an engineer from a freshman Cuba. I was gaining home by going to talk in the morning after long work.

I was waking up at 6 o'clock, giving it right to my brother, to my son, to my brother-in-law to work as an engineer and he survived by himself. There you go. And I'm not better than anybody out. anybody can do it but at least i open the door for this to when you want something you got to do yourself that's a good one to learn that's a good lesson to learn you have to do yourself don't bring nobody out by yourself and that what it did i survived but but you're using for your feeling if i didn't i was i wasn't christian at that time i was not christian but became christian here and i damage chaplain

you can see all that and what i do three times i do all that chaplain all that award that i have 12 people in time to show people how are doing time in prison. I don't need that time. We'll do that too, too. And 12 people have been trying to come in suicide because the prison is very depressed. When I see what I've been through in life, they change their mind. And that's what I do. Wonderful things you're doing there, Ramon.

So thank you very much for coming the show. Give us your dot-coms, websites. Where do you want people to find out more about you on the interwebs? You got my wrong, my Ramon-I-Garcia. I mean, that's my website. I'm online every Tuesday, doing Bible study in Spanish, and also a chaplain.

And also you can see the book. It's in Amazon. See it in time free, in Amazon, Facebook. You can go to YouTube and serve for us as the book, and you will see it's available. All that in English. It's a new book and encourage you to buy, to buy because something to share with your kids,

cost of freedom. cost of freedom. Freedom is not free. Freedom is not free. You have yourself of freedom. People complain, complain, complain, but when you make a mistake, what you're going to do, stand up, and correct your mistake, keep on going.

Well, thank you very much for coming to show. We really appreciate, Ramon. It's a precious thing for invitation. I hope if I see you again, when Cuba is free. We might have a pinia colada over there. I love that idea. I'd love to go there and photograph that beautiful place.

It's kind of locked in time. I won't know anything then. You have to come to the U.S. if you want to see me then. Sounds good then. All right, sir. Continuous success with everything you're doing. Folks, pick up his book where Refine Books are sold called Three Times Free Autobiographical Story.

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