In the photo, the Cuban brothers pose next to their father in Costa Rica, a Central American country where they made a stopover before arriving in Miami.
“A day like today # 41 years ago we left #CUBA via #CostaRica where we met up with uncle @emilioestefanjr and a few months later with the rest of the family in #MIAMI This photo is a TREASURE! Me with # 13 anyets 😳❤️🥰 #Repost @ jestefan30 “, wrote the popular host of” La Grossa i la Flaca “, in one of her most recent posts on Instagram.
This is a photo from 1980, in which, with his father Josep and his younger brother Juan Emilio.
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The snapshot was also placed by his brother on his wall in the bedroom net, next to which he reminded his followers of the day he left behind his homeland and part of his family.
“August 24, 1980 is the second birthday of my sister and I! The day we left Cuba on Iberia Airlines and landed in Costa Rica. My uncle @emilioestefanjr landed in Miami a few hours later. This is the first photo we are taken in Freedom and the legend of Joan Estefan started Thanks @ligia_maria_estrada for the photo “, he wrote.
The snapshot of the record. Image of an illustrative and non-commercial nature / https://www.instagram.com/p/CS-EIIELtTj/
The intervention of the producer Emilio Estefan in the lives of his nephews and his brother not only meant the passport to freedom, it also opened the doors to new opportunities that both Lili and Juan Emilio knew how to make the most of.
Her father José remarried, Lili became one of the most charismatic and successful Hispanic television presenters in the United States and her beloved brother is currently a wine entrepreneur and a happy married man (since 2018).
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The two nephews of the so-called King Midas of Latin music and his wife, Gloria Estefan, have expressed on multiple occasions all that they thank their famous uncles. The Estefans were part of the Cubans who managed to escape the regime of Fidel Castro between April 15 and October 31, 1980, a migration that was called “Exodus of Mariel”.
Lili was born the 20 from March of 1967, in the home of Jose Estefan and Becky Garci’a, according to biography in the site mundohispanico.com. She was christened Liliana by Carmen Estefan García and lost her mother when she was 10 years old. She arrived in Miami with a widowed father and a younger brother, in 1980. Six years later she had the opportunity to debut as a model in the program “Giant Saturday” and this charisma and dynamism that characterize her so much to conquer Mr. Francisco, who catapulted her to the fame of American entertainment.
Lili and Juan Emilio pose with a young Gloria Estefan, in an IG post shared by the employer in September 2019. Image of an illustrative and non-commercial nature / https://www.instagram.com/p/B14qEWoAKBF/
However, among the thousands of followers she has on her social media, there are always toxic messages from her ‘haters’ criticizing the luxurious life that she and her paternal family exhibit. At the foot of this souvenir photo, some lamented that she almost never talks about her maternal relatives and judges her for her media behavior.
“And from your Mommy’s family they live here in Miami ❤️I lived for a long time at home 🏠 from your Grandma 👵 Mariol here I met Hu Hu Cousins JA your Uncle Pepe Never talk about them ??”, “So how they helped her out of Cuba, because they never helped the whole family so that they would have freedom like them. This is sad. in cuba or by cuba. To this puncture people are worth mother their country “,” they say that never it went to see nor to his mother that I leave it there 😮, that it remained for the rest of the family “, were some of the remarks against “the Skinny.”
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But her loyal admirers defended her in cape and sword: “my people do not judge and make history reasons must see. Do not be reckless beautiful photo Lilli”, “What beautiful memories !!! ❤️❤️And I love the pose … “,” Bella “,” Blessings for those who help them out of Cuba “. Of course, many highlighted the huge resemblance she has with her daughter Lina Luaces.
From his social media, the Univision star maintains support for his Cuban people and urges those who can support his brothers in the Caribbean, who have so longed for the freedom that the Estefans have enjoyed in the U.S. for decades.
Lili, Joan and their father (d), next to Emilio Estefan, the man who saved them, in a photo published in IG by Juan, last March. Image of an illustrative and non-commercial nature / https://www.instagram.com/p/CMBPe0bAPpj/