Do Not Believe the 'Te Quiero Mucho' B.S. Script in Cuba.

by Carla
(London)

We have all heard about the Te Quiero Mucho script, and believe me ladies it is a script!. Let me explain and share my experiences of the 'Te Quero Mucho' script.

I love Cuba and have been there three times.

Each time I visited I was asked for my email address by what I realise now were hustlers desperate to get a ticket/visa out of Cuba by way of a foreign woman.

None of these were boyfriends in the romantic sense. We met through ladies who owned the casa particular or when I was out dancing - (Casa de La Trovas are real stomping ground for hustlers) They would charm me chat me up over a Cuba Libre, which they rarely bought.

One worked at a school in Trinidad. A nice guy, seemed very sincere, wrote poetry. Took me to a great theatre in Trinidad to see a fascinating dance display.

Before leaving he presented me with a love poem, he must have been up at dawn to present this poem to me, my bus left at 6am.

Then the emails arrived fast and furious. Te Amo, Te Quiero Mucho, Te Estraño, Mi Corazon, Mi Vida...In the end I had to block him they were just too much.

On another trip I met a classical musician with an orchestras in Santiago. Highly intelligent, ambitious, intense.
On our first date he invited me to dinner at his father's apartment. His father also a musican with a well known Cuban band which toured abroad was separated from his mother.
It seems the father and stepmother had me set in their sight as a potential wife, a way out and a visa to prosperity for their son who kept bitching to me about how little musicians receive in Cuba after years of training etc.
I kid you not his emails were exactly the same as the guy who worked at the school. 'Te Quiero Mucho' Te Estraño Mi Corazon, Mi Vida'. Could there be a script floating around, a prototype blueprint of how to fool a foreigner into believing they adored her and she was the best thing in their life.

In Santiago on another visit I met a dancer, who also invited me to meet his mother, we had a lovely lunch, shocked to see an enormous pig on their tiny balcony.
She immediately suggested he would have a better life abroad. I could read between the lines. Lovely guy, very talented but very intense.
His love letters and emails were even more prosaic that then other two. But read almost identical. They included sketches of hearts flowers and birds which were sweet. Now perhaps it was for real, but I was not prepared to take that risk. Of the three the dancer seemed the most genuine.
It does seem like the parents are in on the scam and possible their girlfriends if they have one or are honest enough to own up to having one.
I have read that the Cuban g/friends if they have them, never put the father's name on the birth certificate in case it would stop him from getting a visa out of the country should he meet a foreigner mug enough to fall for the 'Te Quiero' script and I honestly believe it is a script.

Ladies I am happy to reveal that I am single with plans to change that.
I have read too many disaster stories. Sad stories which unfortunately seem to be from Canadian ladies. The Canadian Govt. really should introduce legislation to tackle the growing problems of marriage fraud.

I have seen friends duped by Cuban con men who were so much more shallow and superficial than the three I met, yet the women married these charmers who made them immedately pregnant. A sure fire way of a visa out.

One lady, Daniella has a PHD in music studies, fell for a charmer, a hustler rat called Ernesto who immediately made her pregnant.
Her life took a downward spiral as soon he arrived here.
Ernest the lazy bastardo did not work.
Lived on unemployment.
Stole her child allowance and danced, smoked and drank his way around the salsa clubs. He was out every night. If she complained he beat her up.
She finally had to call the police to have him removed.

I know a 40 something woman, a plain lady, but nice person, a bit tubby low self esteem (real bait for the jinetero) She is a sucessful travel editor at a fashion magazine. A great catch for a con man.
She was having a Bridget Jones moment in Santiago and lost her heart to the biggest hustler in Santiago.
A pint sized AfroCuban charmer all dreadlocks and more bling than P.Diddy.
The hustler made her pregnant thus ensuring a ticket/visa out of Cuba.
Like Daniella, the travel editor is home alone each night babysitting their daughter while he is out on the town chasing younger more attractive women.
Need I say more. Socialise, flirt, have fun...
But Do Not Marry A Cuban Man!!
You will seriously regret the day you did. I have read all the emails on here and on Cuba Mania forum. I feel for the victims, my heart goes out to those ladies.
Meanwhile I read all the emails love letters from the Cuban men I have met.
They all read the same, almost identical from three different guys.
I am thinking about publishing them online as a warning to women out there.
Be smart, keep your life safe, your finances safe, have fun but no no to mariage!!
I would never marry one and I am happy content, and have peace of mind. Thank God.
I hope the ladies who have been duped will find peace of mind also, and genuine love one day.

COMMENTS by Vic webmaster havana-guide.com
Well what a story, Carla sad indeed, but I hope that our visitors and travellers to Cuba will think twice before they will marry a Cuban. Many learnt it the hard way. I have mentioned it before you're not alone, exchanging experiences can be an eye opener. The problem is that big, that there is a specialized website named STOP MARRIAGE FRAUD dot ca. Hope this will help!
http://www.stopmarriagefraud.ca