By Dana O’Neil, CNN

Miami Gardens, Florida (CNN) — Mario Campos grew up deep in the hills of Cuba, a guajiro as the poor farmers there were called.

Despite his rural roots, Campos wound his way to a job with the national police. He kept his position for 26 years, until Fidel Castro came to power and those who worked under the Batista regime were tossed into prison.

Campos was one of the lucky ones. His association with the overthrown Batista government was through the police and not political, a distinction that may have spared him his life and certainly aided his relatively early release from prison. In 1961, as soon as he was freed, Campos fled Cuba for Florida.

He could not speak, write or read English, and the country he now called home did not necessarily want him. In the early 1960s businesses readily hung “Cubans Don’t Apply” signs on their windows. Undeterred, Campos taught himself the language, found work as a dishwasher, and saved up his money so he could buy a produce truck.

Idling along the road one day for a lunch break, Campos spied someone building houses. He struck up a conversation with the man about his job, diving some basic information about construction and determined – with absolutely no background or experience whatsoever – that he, too, could become a general contractor.

In 1970, Campos Construction Company Inc., filed for incorporation. Mario Campos would build and work on houses well into his 70s, including a string along SW 25th Street in Miami that belonged to his extended family.

On Monday night, Mario Cristobal – a second-generation Cuban American, the son and grandson of Cuban exiles, and one-time resident of 6713 SW 25th Street – will lead the University of Miami onto the Hard Rock Stadium field for the College Football Playoff national championship, a personal ascension nearly as improbable as the team revolution at Indiana.

“Our grandfather, he had this philosophy,’’ Cristobal’s big brother Lou told CNN Sports. “If anybody can do it, I can do it, too. That’s kind of what we all believed.’’

An only-in-South-Florida tale

In every family there is the rule follower … and the other one. Typically, the oldest colors between the lines.

“I was the maniac,’’ Lou laughs.

Not like a law breaker; more like a gremlin. Mario was the kid who set his shoes out just right every night before he went to bed. Lou came in and tossed them around before morning. Mario played video games until he mastered them. Lou hit reset when the game didn’t go his way.

Truth be told, neither of them wanted to do anything to disappoint their parents. Luis Cristobal Sr., and Clara were of their generation – faithful to their church, their family and their work. Like his father-in-law, Luis emigrated to Florida in the early 1960s. He did not fare as well in the Cuban prisons. One of the youngest government workers in the Batista regime, he spent two years in captivity, was tortured regularly and twice stared down the barrels of a firing squad.

He came to the US with no money and no family – his parents and sister opted to settle in Puerto Rico. Luis opened a car battery business and Clara went to work with Kendall Toyota processing titles. He worked until he died, often attending to cars in his driveway for friends and family who needed help. Clara retired at 79. They socked away everything they had for their boys.

But the family’s culture was not predicated on just giving. The boys were expected to earn their way with good grades and respect. There is a famed story about Campos, eyeing the bo

Por Zoe Sottile, Alisha Ebrahimji y Karina Tsui, CNN

Los registros de llamadas de emergencia y los informes que detallan el tiroteo fatal de Renee Good la semana pasada por parte de un agente federal de inmigración revelan una mayor sensación de caos organizacional y gran conmoción en torno a sus momentos finales.

Agentes del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) “acaban de dispararle a una señora”. “A quemarropa en su auto”, declaró una persona que llamó al 911 poco después de que el agente disparara a Good en su vehículo el 7 de enero, según las transcripciones de la llamada de emergencia que CNN obtuvo de funcionarios de Minneapolis.

Con la ayuda de testigos presenciales, algunos de los cuales registraron tanto el tiroteo como las protestas que siguieron, junto con los informes recientemente publicados por los funcionarios, aquí hay una cronología de cómo se desarrolló el tiroteo:

Los momentos previos al tiroteo fueron captados por transeúntes y por Jonathan Ross, el veterano de 10 años de ICE que disparó y mató a Good, una madre de tres hijos, de 37 años.

Un alto funcionario del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional declaró a CNN que Ross comenzó a filmar el encuentro —que ocurrió en medio de la ofensiva inmigratoria del Gobierno de Trump en las Ciudades Gemelas— porque Good y su esposa estaban acosando a los agentes.

El video grabado por Ross comienza con el agente de ICE frente a la camioneta color borgoña de Good, que estuvo detenida unos minutos en perpendicular a una calle residencial nevada de Minneapolis, obstruyendo el flujo vehicular. Ross no dijo nada mientras caminaba por la parte delantera del vehículo hacia el lado del conductor.

Entonces Good se dirigió a Ross, según muestra el vídeo.

“Está bien, amigo. No estoy enojada contigo”, manifiesta. Ross no respondió. La esposa de la víctima, Becca Good, le dijo “da la cara” a Ross, cuyo reflejo enmascarado aparece en el video.

Becca Good levantó su celular, aparentemente grabando a Ross, y le preguntó: “¿Quieres venir a por nosotros? ¿Quieres venir a por nosotros? Te digo que vayas a buscarte algo de comer, grandullón”.

Luego intentó volver a entrar al coche, pero la puerta estaba cerrada.

Inmediatamente, otro funcionario le indicó a Good, la conductora, que “saliera del maldito auto”.

Se vio entonces a Renee Good dar marcha atrás y mirar hacia adelante mientras giraba el volante a la derecha. El coche avanzó, Ross gritó “¡guau!” y se oyeron tres disparos. Good recibió una herida de bala poco después de las 9:30 a.m., hora local, según un comunicado de prensa del ayuntamiento.

El video filmado por Ross capturó el audio de los disparos, pero no muestra el momento exacto del tiroteo.

Sin embargo, otros videos de transeúntes muestran que Ross se encontraba fuera del alcance del vehículo cuando abrió fuego. Disparó primero contra el parabrisas y luego a quemarropa por la ventanilla abierta del conductor, según muestran los videos.

Al final de la grabación d

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By Daria Tarasova-Markina, Svitlana Vlasova, Ivana Kottasová, CNN

Kyiv (CNN) — Kateryna Skurydina goes to bed wearing thermal underwear, two jumpers and a scarf. She covers herself with a down duvet and two blankets. But her secret weapon is her cat, Pushok.

“He has a high body temperature. So he’s like a hot water bottle,” she told CNN.

The heating in Skurydina’s Kyiv apartment has been mostly off since Russia launched a massive attack on the city’s energy infrastructure on January 8, leaving hundreds of thousands of households, businesses and schools in the capital without power.

Temperatures have dropped as low as –19 degrees Celsius (–2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) this week, and officials say the timing of Russia’s strikes – in the middle of what the prime minister called the harshest winter in 20 years – is no coincidence.

Like most Ukrainians, Skurydina is now used to living with constant power outages. She has multiple power banks and blackout-proof gadgets. Her apartment is full of artificial USB-powered candles, Christmas lights, and camping lanterns.

The cold, though, is new.

The temperature inside her building has been as low as 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit) in the past few days, a full eight degrees below the indoor temperature that the World Health Organization recommends as healthy.

“It’s very difficult mentally. Now that I’ve lost my heating, I’ve realized that I don’t really need electricity that much. When you have heating but no electricity, everything is fine,” she said, pointing to her habit of turning to exercise to boost her mood during the blackouts.

“Sport keeps me going. I go to a gym which runs on eco-fuel. (But) yesterday, they even (shut) the gym because there is no heating and it is very cold. You can’t go anywhere.”

State of emergency

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky declared a state of emergency for the country’s energy sector on Wednesday, admitting that the consequences of the Russian strikes and the extremely low temperatures were very severe.

Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said that 300 multi-story buildings in the capital remained without heating as of Thursday, down from the 6,000 that had no heat supply after the massive attack a week earlier.

While Kyiv has been the worst affected, emergency power outages have been reported across the country.

Ukrainian officials said Wednesday that a large-scale Russian attack on Kryvyi Rih, Zelensky’s hometown in central Ukraine, had left tens of thousands of people without power. Major outages were also reported in Dnipro in southeastern Ukraine. On Thursday, attacks knocked out power in Zhytomyr in the west and Kharkiv in northeast, according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy.

Many schools have shut, unable to heat up classrooms to safe temperatures. Shops, cafes and restaurants that could normally provide some respite to residents looking for warmth and a power supply have also been forced to close.

It has been so cold this week that some diesel power generators – vital to keep the lights on when supply from the grid is cut off – have stopped working.

Authorities in Kyiv and elsewhere across the country have been operating hundreds of “invincibility points” where local people can get warm, charge their devices and work. Zelensky said on Wednesday that more of these would open.

Iryna Palandina, who came to one of the help points in Kyiv on Thursday, told CNN she had no electricity, no water supply and no way to cook food at home.

“We came to drink tea because I don’t even have anything to heat water with,” she said. “After the last attack, it became so difficu