古巴/波多黎各裔学者朋友P的邮件，读来令人心情沉重，米国殖民地和被米国霸凌的拉美国家太惨了，需要团结起来抗争：

“I'm glad you made good use of your time in Cuba. I really enjoyed the pictures you uploaded. It was a disheartening visit for me, not just because the situation has deteriorated so badly, but because I had never seen morale so low. I'm sorry that this is the version of Cuba you had to witness. However, I'm glad that you were able to meet folks down there who are not simply surviving, but also committed to building a hopeful vision of the future.

As fate would have it, I arrived in San Juan to an apartment with no power or running water, so the Puerto Rican leg of my research trip looked a lot like the Cuban one. “