Here's How America's Crisis Feels Too Familiar To This Immigrant Who Has Covered War
No, Washington, D.C., is not Baghdad, despite now having a Green Zone of its own. But the events of Jan. 6 make the comparison more apt than any of us would wish.
As a former international correspondent who covered a dozen wars and revolutions, I know the signs of civil strife. And now, I see the battle lines being drawn up in my own family's text-messaging groups, in heated email exchanges and, more chilling, in the refusal to discuss politics at all just to preserve a common bond.
My family – which is Cuban – fled communism. My mother was 21 and pregnant with her third childwhen she ended up in Florida in 1959 while Fidel Castro stormed Havana. My father
