"On March 31, 2003 he knocked on the door to the cockpit of a Russian Antonov-24 plane on which he was traveling from Cuba's Isla de Juventud to Havana with his wife and son. He showed the pilot two grenades and asked, Do you know what these are? The pilot replied, Grenades? Wilson didn't beat around the bush: It's a fragmentation grenade. If the plane lands in Havana, the only thing touching down will be ashes."
"The fear is still latent, it's there. The fear is like my underwear, my socks, my shirts, the water I use to wash my face every day when I wake up, because the future really is uncertain, he says. If the Mexican authorities decide that they don't want to have me here, they're going to put me on a plane to Cuba."
Adermis Wilson Gonzalez threatened a Russian Antonov-24 with grenades on March 31, 2003 while traveling from Isla de Juventud to Havana, demanding the plane continue to Florida. He has lived with the consequences of that action for more than two decades. The U.S. government deported him to Mexico on September 14, 2025. At 56 he maintains daily routines of exercise and careful eating while renting an apartment with other deported Cubans. He remains deeply afraid of falling into Cuban government hands and relies on frequent calls with his 87-year-old mother in Texas, who has Alzheimer's.
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