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In 1979 Cuba sent 20,000 troops to Ethiopia to fight off the invading Somalis. In return, Cuba offered to take in Ethiopian orphans and provide them primary education, military training, and university scholarships. 2,400 Ethiopian orphan children arrived, ranging from age six to thirteen. The children were sent to study in rural boarding schools on a small island, la Isla de Juventud, off the coast of Cuba. The Unhealing Wound documents the present day situations of these young children, now adults, and the various ways their lives have been altered by their years of exile in Cuba. |