"I want to keep my life private and personal," Salgado told The Herald. "I don't want my private life to come out in the newspaper."

"The children and grandchildren don't necessarily agree with their parents or grandparents," Jaime Suchlicki, director of the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami, told the Herald. "She reflects the younger Cubans who don't believe in the revolution or its failing leader."

Fernández fled Cuba in 1993, leaving her then-16-year-old daughter behind.

At a news conference after arriving in the United States, Fernández appealed to her father to let his granddaughter leave, and revealed that it was her daughter who encouraged her to flee Cuba.

Alina Salgado was allowed to join her mother in exile.

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