Two of my classmates survived the Bay of Pigs and prison to escape and eventually got his PhD in Chemical Engineering. He never talked about it. I learned about him from other Cuban students.
He never talked about it, but the words he used for Castro and Kennedy cannot be printed here.
Funny you mention this.
I too studied ChemE with Cubans who had returned from the Bay of Pigs debacle and they were pretty bitter about the whole affair. Whether they continued for their PhDs, I don’t know. Lost track of them.
Georgia Tech grad?