He grew up believing that freedom was a luxury reserved for others.

He was born on an island where the phrase "belongs to me" sounded almost like an insult.

For years he learned to conform, like everyone else, as if that were the only right way to live, going out in the afternoons to collect the bread the government gave him, or the rice and beans for the month.

But one day he understood that freedom doesn't come on its own: it is sought, fought for, and paid for dearly.

So he left Cuba with his wife and a small child in his arms. He left family, memories, and the false comfort of the familiar to head for the unknown, to face the world from a different perspective.

He passed through Venezuela, where he saw what happens when money rots in people's hands. A rich country, literally overflowing with oil, but corruption and communism have plunged it into misery. There he learned his first lesson:

When the State controls your bread, it also controls your life.

They arrived in Brazil without promises, without guarantees, and without a clear path ahead. Without knowing a soul, only with the promise of someone they met in a WhatsApp group who would help them. Many thought it was madness, but in the end, it paid off; God intervened, and everything worked out for the best.

When you decide you'll never be a slave again, you have to take that leap of faith into the void; there's no other way.

Along the way, he discovered Bitcoin (although he'd known about it for years), and something incredible happened within him: fear began to transform into conviction. His salary was no longer the only way to build a future. The time he'd saved became an investment for his family.

Today, he homeschools his son, teaching values ​​that don't fit into a state curriculum. They bake their own bread (well, his wife does), they make radical decisions, and they take responsibility for their health, their minds, and their freedom.

He's not perfect. He's not rich.

But every day he moves a little further away from the cage where he was born.

And he realized something powerful:

So yes… He's still building.

But more than just money, he's building dignity, dignity for himself, for his wife, and for his children, that family, still small and living in an apartment, dreams of leaving and living on land where they can grow their own food.

He still has a lot to learn, a lot to grow, but we're on the right track…