Breaking cultural barriers: Stories of immigrants who now call Kentucky home
by Beth Klasskin, @bklasskin – Editor’s Note: This is a four-part series looking at the stories of refugees living in Kentucky and their effect on the economy. In the summer of 1994, 18-year-old Fernando Martinez boarded a raft on the shores of communist-led Cuba in the dark, early morning hours. Martinez, his mother and six others were desperate…