Tomás Milián’s father Tomás Sr.was an army captain under
the Cuban dictatorship of Gerardo Machado y Morales. In 1933 the Morales the
dictatorship was overthrown and his father was arrested and jailed and then
sent to an asylum. The relationship between Tomás senior and Tomás junior appears
to have been very difficult, both for the military rigidity and the mental
fragility of the parent and for the sensitivity and the grumpiness of the
child. On the New Year’s Eve December 31, 1945, the officer decides to take his
life with a gunshot right under the eyes of his son.
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