Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry (2010–…): Season 1, Episode 1 - Mr. Good Times - full transcript
On May 19, 1992, Mary Jo Buttafuoco's life changed forever. Shot point blank in the head by her husband's teenage lover - the notorious "Long Island Lolita" - Amy Fisher, Mary Jo was lucky to escape with her life.
HE WAS
A DASHING YOUNG JET PILOT.
SHE WAS A BEAUTIFUL DIVORCéE.
I FELT THAT
THIS WAS GOING TO BE FOR KEEPS,
AND I FELT THAT
THIS WAS SOMETHING FOREVER.
BUT ANA MARGARITA'S SEXY HUSBAND
HAD NO INTENTION
OF LIVING HAPPILY EVER AFTER.
JUAN PABLO WAS VERY GOOD
AT FOOLING PEOPLE.
I THINK HE WAS AN EXPERT AT IT.
THIS WAS JUST TOO BIZARRE.
NOBODY COULD HAVE SEEN THIS
COMING.
HIS DECEPTION
NOT ONLY ROCKED ANA'S WORLD
BUT THE ENTIRE STATE OF FLORIDA.
PEOPLE IMMEDIATELY STARTED
TO SAY THAT HE WAS A SPY.
WHEN IT COMES
TO LOVE AND MARRIAGE,
THINGS AREN'T ALWAYS
AS THEY SEEM.
ANY GOOD CUBAN GIRL KNOWS THE
IMPORTANCE OF FINDING A HUSBAND.
AND ANA MARGARITA MARTINEZ
IS NO EXCEPTION.
MY MOM AND MY GRANDMOTHER WANTED
ME TO HAVE A PARTNER IN LIFE,
TO HAVE SOMEONE TO SHARE
THE GOOD AND THE BAD WITH.
BUT FINDING LOVE
WOULD NOT BE EASY FOR ANA.
BY 1992, THE BEAUTIFUL
32-YEAR-OLD CUBAN EXILE
WAS LIVING IN MIAMI,
TWICE DIVORCED
WITH TWO SMALL CHILDREN.
BECAUSE SHE WAS A SINGLE MOM,
SHE DIDN'T DATE THAT MUCH.
SO WHEN SHE WAS DATING SOMEBODY,
IT WOULD SPREAD WORD
AROUND THE FAMILY.
ANA HAD PRACTICALLY
GIVEN UP ON MEETING MR. RIGHT,
WHEN CUPID STRUCK
IN THE MOST UNUSUAL PLACE.
I WENT TO CHURCH
ONE SUNDAY MORNING, AS USUAL,
AND I MET JUAN PABLO ROQUE.
HE WAS
A RICHARD GERE LOOK-ALIKE,
AND THERE WAS SOMETHING
MYSTERIOUS ABOUT HIM.
HE WAS A DEFECTOR
FROM THE CUBAN MILITARY,
WHO, I BELIEVE, SWAM TO
GUANTANAMO IN ORDER TO GET HERE.
SO IT WAS LIKE A HEROIC STORY
OF ESCAPE FROM CUBA.
JUAN PABLO'S DEFECTION
MADE HEADLINE NEWS.
HE QUICKLY BECAME
THE DARLING OF MIAMI.
I WAS IMPRESSED WITH THE STORY,
AS EVERYONE ELSE WAS.
LUCKY FOR ANA,
JUAN PABLO SINGLED HER OUT.
HE SAID,
"HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TOLD
YOU HAVE
SUCH A BEAUTIFUL SMILE?"
AND THEN I JUST LOOKED AND
I STARTED, LIKE, COUNTING,
LIKE SAYING, "YEAH,
I'VE BEEN TOLD MANY TIMES."
THEY REALLY LOOKED GOOD
TOGETHER.
THEY WERE ALMOST LIKE
THE LATIN KEN AND BARBIE.
JUST SIX MONTHS AFTER THEY
MET, JUAN PABLO POPPED THE QUESTION.
BUT ANA TOOK HER TIME.
THREE YEARS LATER,
SHE AND JUAN PABLO TIED THE KNOT
ON APRIL 1, 1995...
APRIL FOOLS' DAY.
I JUST REMEMBER
FEELING PEACEFUL,
LIKE, "THIS IS THE PERSON
I'M GONNA BE WITH
FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE."
ANA'S NEW HUSBAND WAS
ALREADY A HOUSEHOLD NAME IN MIAMI,
AND HE HAD BECOME
EVEN MORE POPULAR
WHEN HE JOINED THE PRESTIGIOUS
GROUP "BROTHERS TO THE RESCUE."
"BROTHERS TO THE RESCUE" WAS
A GROUP OF VOLUNTEER PILOTS
WHO SEARCHED THE FLORIDA STRAITS
FOR RAFTERS
WHO WERE SEEKING FREEDOM.
THEY WERE VIEWED AS HEROES,
GOING OUT EVERY WEEKEND,
SOMETIMES DURING THE WEEK.
HAD MORE THAN A DOZEN
VOLUNTEER PILOTS
WHO WOULD FLY THEIR OWN PLANES,
SPEND THEIR OWN MONEY ON FUEL.
THEY WERE LITERALLY SAVING LIVES
IN THE FLORIDA STRAITS...
YOU KNOW, RAFTERS
WHO WOULD POSSIBLY HAVE DIED
IF IT WEREN'T FOR THESE PILOTS.
WHEN HE WASN'T VOLUNTEERING,
JUAN PABLO TOOK ODD JOBS
TO HELP MAKE ENDS MEET.
HE SEEMED WILLING TO DO
ALMOST ANYTHING FOR ANA.
SHE WAS HAPPY BEING A WIFE.
SHE WAS HAPPY HAVING THE FAMILY.
SO, YEAH,
SHE WAS HAPPY BEING IN LOVE.
BUT THEIR HONEYMOON WAS
ABOUT TO COME TO AN ABRUPT END.
IN FEBRUARY OF 1996, JUST
10 MONTHS INTO THEIR MARRIAGE,
JUAN PABLO ANNOUNCED
HE WAS TAKING A LAST-MINUTE JOB
IN KEY WEST,
SEVERAL HOURS FROM HOME.
SOMETHING TOLD ME
IT WAS NOT QUITE RIGHT.
JUAN PABLO TOLD HER
HE NEEDED TO HELP A FRIEND MOVE
HIS YACHT FOR THE EXTRA CASH.
BUT ANA DIDN'T
WANT HIM TO LEAVE TOWN.
I WAS SO UNEASY WITH IT
THAT I ASKED HIM NOT TO DO IT.
AND HE GOT ANGRY.
AND SO I DIDN'T WANT TO
ARGUE ABOUT IT,
SO I DIDN'T BRING IT UP ANYMORE.
WHEN JUAN PABLO LEFT
FOR HIS TRIP LATER THAT NIGHT,
ANA COULDN'T SHAKE THE FEELING
THAT SOMETHING WAS WRONG.
I HAD A VERY, VERY STRANGE
FEELING IN THE MORNING.
I MUST HAVE TRIED HIS NUMBER
50 TIMES.
THE FACT THAT HE WASN'T
ANSWERING HIS PHONE CALLS
AND HE WASN'T CALLING US
TO SEE HOW WE WERE DOING
DEFINITELY WORRIED ME.
A WOMAN'S INTUITION
IS RARELY WRONG.
ANA'S HUSBAND WAS MISSING,
ALL RIGHT,
AND HIS DISAPPEARANCE WAS ABOUT
TO CAUSE A MEDIA FRENZY.
WELL, THE PHONE CALL
FROM MY EDITOR SAID THAT
TWO "BROTHERS TO THE RESCUE"
PLANES HAD BEEN SHOT DOWN.
I WAS SO EXTREMELY NERVOUS.
IN FEBRUARY 1996,
ANA MARGARITA'S HUSBAND
LEFT FOR A TRIP TO KEY WEST
AND NEVER RETURNED HOME.
BUT 10 MONTHS BEFORE
HIS MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE,
ANA BEGAN TO REALIZE
JUAN PABLO WASN'T EXACTLY
THE PERFECT HUSBAND.
HE FIBBED A LITTLE.
I NOTICED THAT,
AND THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS
THAT WE ARGUED ABOUT.
AND AS JUAN PABLO'S
SOCIAL CIRCLE GREW,
ANA WASN'T ALWAYS THRILLED
WITH THE COMPANY HE KEPT.
ONE DINNER GUEST IN PARTICULAR
MADE HER FEEL LIKE AN OUTSIDER
IN HER OWN HOME.
HE WAS A FELLOW
"BROTHERS TO THE RESCUE" PILOT
WHO HAD BECOME QUITE CLOSE
TO JUAN PABLO.
THEY GOT TOGETHER QUITE OFTEN
AND TALKED,
AND, ON OCCASION,
THEY WOULD SPEAK IN RUSSIAN.
WHEN I ASKED,
YOU KNOW, WHAT WAS GOING ON,
THEY SAID THAT, YOU KNOW,
THEY JUST NEEDED TO PRACTICE
BECAUSE, OTHERWISE,
THEY WOULD FORGET THE LANGUAGE.
ANA THOUGHT IT WAS ODD,
BUT SHE KNEW BOTH MEAN LEARNED
RUSSIAN IN THE CUBAN AIR FORCE,
BACK WHEN THE MILITARY
WAS RUN BY THE SOVIET UNION.
IT MADE ME FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE,
BUT, YOU KNOW,
HE EXPLAINED IT AWAY.
HE SAID THAT
THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THINGS
PERTAINING
TO "BROTHERS TO THE RESCUE"
AND THEIR ACTIVISM AND CUBA.
WHILE JUAN PABLO ALWAYS
SEEMED TO KNOW WHAT TO SAY TO ANA,
AROUND HER FAMILY,
HE WAS A MAN OF FEW WORDS.
HIS PERSONALITY
WAS JUST FLATTER THAN A PANCAKE.
HE WASN'T
A VERY GREAT CONVERSATIONALIST.
A CONVERSATION
WAS VERY "YES," "NO"...
AND VERY MILITARY, VERY
ABBREVIATED, VERY, VERY BRIEF.
AND BEHIND CLOSED DOORS,
ANA'S HUSBAND
WAS BECOMING UNPREDICTABLE.
HE WAS CONTROLLING
AND MANIPULATIVE,
BUT WHAT BALANCED IT WAS
THAT HE LIKED TO MAKE ME HAPPY.
HE WOULD DO THINGS
JUST TO PLEASE ME.
BY FEBRUARY 1996, JUAN
PABLO'S BEHAVIOR WAS DOWNRIGHT PECULIAR.
AT TIMES, HE SEEMED PARANOID,
ESPECIALLY
AFTER SOME NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS
TRIED TO PULL A SILLY PRANK.
I GOT A CALL FROM MY NEIGHBOR,
TELLING ME THAT SOME KIDS
HAD ATTEMPTED
TO BREAK INTO MY HOUSE,
AND THEY HAD ACTUALLY BROKEN
MY WINDOW.
SO I TOLD HIM WHAT HAD HAPPENED,
AND HE TOTALLY OVERREACTED.
HE SAID
SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES OF,
"THAT WAS MEANT FOR ME.
IT'S BECAUSE OF ME."
ANA MARGARITA PRESSED
HER HUSBAND FOR MORE DETAILS,
BUT HE REFUSED
TO EXPLAIN HIMSELF.
FROM THAT NIGHT ON, JUAN PABLO
SEEMED LIKE A DIFFERENT MAN,
ALWAYS LOOKING OVER
HIS SHOULDER.
HE WAS GETTING AGITATED.
HE WAS WAKING UP
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT,
TOSSING AND TURNING A LOT.
HE WAS VERY STRESSED,
VERY STRESSED.
AND I COULDN'T UNDERSTAND
WHAT WAS GOING ON,
AND HE SAID
IT WAS JUST ALL WORK-RELATED.
ANA MARGARITA SENSED
THAT JUAN PABLO
WAS KEEPING SOMETHING FROM HER,
BUT SHE HAD NO IDEA WHAT.
AND SHE WOULD NEVER HAVE
A CHANCE TO ASK HIM AGAIN.
ON FEBRUARY 24, 1996,
JUAN PABLO LEFT
FOR AN ODD JOB IN KEY WEST
AND NEVER RETURNED HOME.
I FELT LOST.
I FELT DESPERATE.
AFTER HEARING NOTHING ALL DAY,
ANA WAS CONVINCED
HER HUSBAND WAS MISSING.
I WAS JUST BESIDE MYSELF.
I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG,
AND I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.
SO I CALLED A FRIEND,
AND HE SAID, "WELL, WHY DON'T
YOU LOOK THROUGH HIS THINGS?
"LOOK THROUGH HIS DRAWERS,
SEE IF ANYTHING'S MISSING.
LOOK FOR CLUES."
AND WHEN ANA SEARCHED
HIS DRESSER,
SHE COULDN'T BELIEVE HER EYES.
I WAS SHOCKED THAT
EVERY TIME I OPENED A DRAWER,
IT WAS PRACTICALLY EMPTY.
MOST OF HIS BELONGINGS
WERE GONE.
JUST WHEN ANA
DIDN'T KNOW WHERE TO TURN,
SHE REMEMBERED
SOMETHING JUAN PABLO TOLD HER
BEFORE HE LEFT FOR THE TRIP.
HE EMPHASIZED TWICE, AT LEAST,
THE DAY BEFORE LEAVING...
HE TOLD ME, "IF YOU NEED TO MOVE
THE CAR FOR ANY REASON,
REMEMBER THAT I KEEP AN EXTRA
SET OF KEYS IN THE DRAWER."
ANA RACED TO FIND
JUAN PABLO'S JEEP,
NOT SURE WHAT SHE WOULD FIND.
THE JEEP WAS EXACTLY
WHERE HE SAID IT WOULD BE...
IN A MIAMI PARKING GARAGE.
AND ANA'S HUSBAND LEFT SOMETHING
VERY TELLING INSIDE.
WHEN I OPENED THE CAR,
THE ONLY THING I FOUND
WAS HIS FULL SET OF KEYS
AND HIS CELLPHONE.
WHEN YOU SEE A FULL SET OF KEYS
INSIDE A CAR,
IT TELLS YOU
THE PERSON'S NOT COMING BACK.
TWO DAYS LATER,
CONFUSION TURNED TO PANIC
WHEN ANA AWOKE
TO STARTLING NEWS.
IT TOPPLED ABOUT THREE TIMES.
IT FIREBALLED.
ACCORDING TO NEWS REPORTS,
SEVERAL MEMBERS OF "BROTHERS
TO THE RESCUE" WERE DEAD,
SHOT DOWN BY CUBAN MiGs
OVER THE FLORIDA STRAITS.
I MEAN,
FOUR AMERICANS ARE KILLED
AND, YOU KNOW, TWO PLANES
BY THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT.
IT'S A BIG STORY.
EVERYBODY WAS HERE FROM EVERY
STATION ALL OVER THE PLACE.
I WAS LIKE, "MAN.
"COULD HE HAVE BEEN PLANNING
TO BE WITH THEM
"AND NOT WANTING TO WORRY US
AND HE WENT OFF ON THIS MISSION
WITH THEM AND WE DON'T KNOW?"
FOUR PILOTS WERE CONFIRMED DEAD,
BUT ANA DIDN'T KNOW
IF JUAN PABLO WAS ONE OF THEM.
HOURS AFTER THE INCIDENT, ANA
LEARNED OF HER HUSBAND'S FATE
FROM A MEMBER
OF "BROTHERS TO THE RESCUE."
I ASKED HIM,
"IS IT POSSIBLE THAT...
MY HUSBAND MAY HAVE BEEN
ON ONE OF THOSE PLANES?"
AND HE TOLD ME,
"NO, HE WAS DEFINITELY NOT."
SO MY HUSBAND WAS STILL MISSING.
MISSING, BUT NOT FOR LONG.
ANA'S HUSBAND WAS ABOUT TO CAUSE
AN INTERNATIONAL SCANDAL.
A REPORTER CAME TO MY DOOR.
HE SAID,
"TURN ON YOUR TV AND WATCH CNN."
THREE DAYS AFTER
SHE KISSED HER HUSBAND GOODBYE,
ANA MARGARITA MARTINEZ WAS STILL
AGONIZING OVER HIS WHEREABOUTS.
JUST WHEN SHE THOUGHT SHE'D
NEVER SEE JUAN PABLO AGAIN,
A REPORTER SHOWED UP
AT HER DOOR,
ARMED WITH ASTONISHING NEWS
ABOUT HER HUSBAND.
HE SAID,
"TURN ON YOUR TV AND WATCH CNN."
AND WHEN I DID THAT,
I SAW MY HUSBAND DISEMBARK
A CUBANA DE AVIAClóN AIRPLANE
IN HAVANA.
HE HAD HIS RAY-BANS ON,
HE HAD HIS WEDDING RING ON,
HE HAD THE CHAIN AND CROSS
THAT I'D GIVEN HIM ON,
AND HE HAD HIS ROLEX.
ANA'S HUSBAND
WAS BACK IN CUBA...
THE VERY COUNTRY
HE SAID HE DESPISED.
I THOUGHT HE WAS CRAZY.
I THOUGHT... I THOUGHT HE MUST
HAVE BEEN FORCED TO GO BACK.
I THOUGHT, UM, YOU KNOW,
THEY BLACKMAILED HIM.
WHEN JUAN PABLO GRANTED
HIS FIRST TELEVISION INTERVIEW
THAT VERY SAME DAY, HE PROUDLY
DENOUNCED THE UNITED STATES,
CUBAN EXILES,
AND "BROTHERS TO THE RESCUE,"
CLAIMING THE GROUP WAS
REALLY A BUNCH OF TERRORISTS.
HE JUST APPEARED
ON CUBAN TELEVISION,
SAYING THAT WHAT CUBA HAD DONE
WAS STOP A TERRORIST ATTACK.
I KNEW THIS WASN'T TRUE.
AND I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND
WHY HE'D SAY THESE THINGS.
AND I REMEMBER TELLING MY MOM,
"HE LOOKS LIKE
HE HASN'T SLEPT IN DAYS.
"THEY HAVE BRAINWASHED HIM,
AND THEY ARE FORCING HIM
TO SAY THESE THINGS."
THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT
OF THE WHOLE INTERVIEW
WAS WHEN HE SAID
HE HAD PENETRATED
"BROTHERS TO THE RESCUE."
IN THE INTELLIGENCE WORLD,
THAT'S CODE FOR, "I AM A SPY."
IT WAS A THREE-LETTER WORD
THAT ANA DIDN'T WANT TO BELIEVE.
PEOPLE IMMEDIATELY STARTED
TO SAY THAT HE WAS A SPY
AND THAT HE HAD BEEN
ON A MISSION HERE IN THE STATES.
I JUST COULD NOT ACCEPT THAT.
BUT U.S. OFFICIALS
BELIEVED IT WAS NO COINCIDENCE
THAT JUAN PABLO DISAPPEARED
THE DAY BEFORE THE SHOOTDOWN.
BY VOLUNTEERING
WITH "BROTHERS TO THE RESCUE,"
HE CLEARLY KNEW THE INS AND OUTS
OF THE OPERATION.
THEY HAD TO HAVE
GREAT INTELLIGENCE
TO KNOW
WHERE EVERYTHING WAS GONNA BE,
BECAUSE HOW WOULD
THEY HAVE KNOWN THE FLIGHT PLAN?
SO IT WAS CLEAR TO EVERYONE
THAT THE SHOOTDOWN
HAD BEEN PREMEDITATED
AND THAT HE WAS A CENTRAL FIGURE
IN THE SHOOTDOWN.
I STOOD BY HIS SIDE.
I FELT
THAT HE HAD TO HAVE BEEN FORCED.
AND, NO, MY HUSBAND
WAS NOT A SPY. OF COURSE NOT.
BUT WHEN A WOMAN LIKE
ANA REALIZES SHE'S BEEN DUPED,
SHE GETS EVEN
WITH THE HELP OF A LAWYER.
HE SAID,
"WE'RE GONNA SUE CUBA FOR RAPE."
BY FEBRUARY 1996,
ANA MARGARITA MARTINEZ'S
MARRIAGE TO JUAN PABLO ROQUE,
NOW AN ACCUSED SPY,
WAS THE TALK OF MIAMI.
IN SOUTH FLORIDA,
THEY LOVE TWO THINGS...
NEWS ABOUT CUBA AND SOAP OPERAS,
WHICH IN SPANISH,
WE CALL NOVELLAS.
AND HERE WAS THIS COMBINATION
OF THESE TWO THINGS...
A CUBAN NOVELLA
THAT YOU JUST COULD NOT MAKE UP.
EVERYONE WANTED TO KNOW MORE
ABOUT THE WIFE WHO STUBBORNLY
DEFENDED HER HUSBAND,
EVEN AFTER HE TOLD THE WORLD
HE DIDN'T MISS HER AT ALL.
IN A PUBLISHED ARTICLE,
THEY ASKED HIM WHAT HE MISSED
MOST ABOUT THE U.S.
AND HE SAID HIS JEEP CHEROKEE.
I FELT THAT HE WAS SAYING THIS
TO PROTECT ME.
THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT WOULDN'T BE
PLEASED WITH HIM SAYING,
"I MISS MY WIFE
AND I MISS MY STEPKIDS."
THAT'S HOW I JUSTIFIED IT.
WHAT SHE FELT
WAS LOYALTY TO HER MAN,
WHICH I DIDN'T AND MANY MEMBERS
OF THE COMMUNITY DIDN'T FEEL.
90% OF ME THOUGHT THAT HE WAS,
YOU KNOW, DEFINITELY A SPY
AND HE HAD HOODWINKED EVERYBODY,
INCLUDING HER.
WAS JUAN PABLO,
THE FAMOUS CUBAN DEFECTOR,
REALLY TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE?
IT MADE EVERYONE SECOND-GUESS
HIS INITIAL STORY OF DEFECTION.
THIS MAGNIFICENT STORY
OF A 17-MILE SWIM,
GETTING HIT BY SHARKS, AND
SWIMMING INTO GUANTANAMO BAY
REALLY DIDN'T SEEM TO HOLD UP.
BUT FOR ANA,
THE WOMAN WHO THOUGHT SHE
FINALLY HAD MARRIED MR. RIGHT,
THAT WAS HARD TO ACCEPT.
ACCEPTING THAT HE WAS A SPY
WAS A LONG PROCESS.
AND IT TURNS OUT THAT
EVERYTHING HE SAID WAS A LIE.
EVERYTHING HE DID WAS A LIE.
FOUR YEARS TOGETHER
WERE ALL A LIE.
THEY WERE PART OF HIS MISSION,
PART OF WHAT HE HAD TO DO.
IN 1998, ANA HAD HER
MARRIAGE TO JUAN PABLO ANNULLED
AND GAVE HIS BELOVED JEEP
TO HER BROTHER.
BUT ANA DIDN'T STOP THERE.
SHE WAS DETERMINED TO GET EVEN.
SO WITH THE HELP OF HER LAWYER,
ANA CAME UP WITH A VERY CLEVER
PLAN FOR REVENGE.
SHE SUED THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT
FOR RAPE
AND WON $27 MILLION IN DAMAGES.
IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA, RAPE IS
DEFINED AS SEX WITHOUT CONSENT.
AND SINCE MY CONSENT
WAS PROCURED FRAUDULENTLY,
IT'S NOT VALID.
IF I LEARNED NOW THAT
MY EX-HUSBAND WAS A CUBAN SPY
AND HAD ONLY MARRIED ME
AS PART OF HIS COVER
AND THAT ALL THE INTIMACY
THAT WE SHARED WAS FAKE,
I THINK THAT, YEAH,
I'D FEEL VIOLATED. DEFINITELY.
THE REASON THE LAWSUIT
IS AGAINST THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT
IS BECAUSE HE WAS ACTING
UNDER THEIR DIRECTION
100% OF THE TIME.
HE COULD NEVER HAVE MARRIED ME
WITHOUT
THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT'S APPROVAL.
IN ORDER TO PULL OFF
HIS ROLE AS A SPY,
JUAN PABLO NEEDED THE PERFECT
COVER... AN UNSUSPECTING WIFE.
THAT MAKES HIM A MUCH MORE
BELIEVABLE, SOLID PERSON
IF YOU'RE MARRIED AND YOU HAVE
KIDS AND YOU HAVE A FAMILY.
IF YOU'RE A SINGLE MAN,
YOU'RE MUCH MORE SUSPICIOUS.
IF YOU'RE HUNTING
FOR AN AMERICAN WIFE,
WHERE ARE YOU GONNA FIND
THE MOST UNSUSPECTING WOMEN?
AND THE ANSWER IS
AT SUNDAY SCHOOL.
AND ANA MARGARITA MARTINEZ
WAS ALREADY DIVORCED.
SO SHE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN
MORE VULNERABLE
AT THAT POINT IN HER LIFE.
I THINK HE SMELLED
BLOOD ON THE WATER.
WHILE THE U.S.
SEES JUAN PABLO AS A FUGITIVE,
IN HIS HOMELAND, HE'S A HERO,
PROTECTED
BY THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT.
HE WAS PROMOTED
TO LIEUTENANT COLONEL
AND RELOCATED
TO A VERY NICE RESIDENCE.
IF JUAN PABLO
EVER STEPS FOOT OUTSIDE OF CUBA,
HE WILL SPEND THE REST OF
HIS LIFE IN AN AMERICAN PRISON.
IT HASN'T BEEN EASY,
BUT ANA MARGARITA IS DETERMINED
TO FINALLY PUT JUAN PABLO'S
DECEPTION BEHIND HER.
HOW DOES IT FEEL WHEN YOU TRUST
SOMEONE WITH YOUR LIFE,
WITH THE LIVES OF YOUR CHILDREN,
AND HE TURNS OUT TO BE SOMEONE
THAT YOU NEVER REALLY KNEW?
IT'S EXTREMELY TRAUMATIC.
HOW DO YOU TRUST AGAIN?
WHEN YOU FALL IN LOVE,
YOU PRETTY MUCH
GOT TO PREPARE YOURSELF.
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN.
YOU CAN REALLY THINK
YOU KNOW SOMEBODY,
AND THAT PERSON CAN HAVE
SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET
LIKE YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE.
DESPITE ALL THE YEARS
OF HEARTACHE,
ANA HASN'T COMPLETELY LOST HOPE
IN A FAIRY-TALE ENDING.
I DON'T THINK I WANT TO
LIVE LIFE DOUBTING EVERYONE.
I HOPE I WILL FIND SOMEONE
OR MEET SOMEONE
THAT WILL TRULY LOVE ME
AND WHO I CAN REALLY,
ALSO, LOVE.
A DASHING YOUNG JET PILOT.
SHE WAS A BEAUTIFUL DIVORCéE.
I FELT THAT
THIS WAS GOING TO BE FOR KEEPS,
AND I FELT THAT
THIS WAS SOMETHING FOREVER.
BUT ANA MARGARITA'S SEXY HUSBAND
HAD NO INTENTION
OF LIVING HAPPILY EVER AFTER.
JUAN PABLO WAS VERY GOOD
AT FOOLING PEOPLE.
I THINK HE WAS AN EXPERT AT IT.
THIS WAS JUST TOO BIZARRE.
NOBODY COULD HAVE SEEN THIS
COMING.
HIS DECEPTION
NOT ONLY ROCKED ANA'S WORLD
BUT THE ENTIRE STATE OF FLORIDA.
PEOPLE IMMEDIATELY STARTED
TO SAY THAT HE WAS A SPY.
WHEN IT COMES
TO LOVE AND MARRIAGE,
THINGS AREN'T ALWAYS
AS THEY SEEM.
ANY GOOD CUBAN GIRL KNOWS THE
IMPORTANCE OF FINDING A HUSBAND.
AND ANA MARGARITA MARTINEZ
IS NO EXCEPTION.
MY MOM AND MY GRANDMOTHER WANTED
ME TO HAVE A PARTNER IN LIFE,
TO HAVE SOMEONE TO SHARE
THE GOOD AND THE BAD WITH.
BUT FINDING LOVE
WOULD NOT BE EASY FOR ANA.
BY 1992, THE BEAUTIFUL
32-YEAR-OLD CUBAN EXILE
WAS LIVING IN MIAMI,
TWICE DIVORCED
WITH TWO SMALL CHILDREN.
BECAUSE SHE WAS A SINGLE MOM,
SHE DIDN'T DATE THAT MUCH.
SO WHEN SHE WAS DATING SOMEBODY,
IT WOULD SPREAD WORD
AROUND THE FAMILY.
ANA HAD PRACTICALLY
GIVEN UP ON MEETING MR. RIGHT,
WHEN CUPID STRUCK
IN THE MOST UNUSUAL PLACE.
I WENT TO CHURCH
ONE SUNDAY MORNING, AS USUAL,
AND I MET JUAN PABLO ROQUE.
HE WAS
A RICHARD GERE LOOK-ALIKE,
AND THERE WAS SOMETHING
MYSTERIOUS ABOUT HIM.
HE WAS A DEFECTOR
FROM THE CUBAN MILITARY,
WHO, I BELIEVE, SWAM TO
GUANTANAMO IN ORDER TO GET HERE.
SO IT WAS LIKE A HEROIC STORY
OF ESCAPE FROM CUBA.
JUAN PABLO'S DEFECTION
MADE HEADLINE NEWS.
HE QUICKLY BECAME
THE DARLING OF MIAMI.
I WAS IMPRESSED WITH THE STORY,
AS EVERYONE ELSE WAS.
LUCKY FOR ANA,
JUAN PABLO SINGLED HER OUT.
HE SAID,
"HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TOLD
YOU HAVE
SUCH A BEAUTIFUL SMILE?"
AND THEN I JUST LOOKED AND
I STARTED, LIKE, COUNTING,
LIKE SAYING, "YEAH,
I'VE BEEN TOLD MANY TIMES."
THEY REALLY LOOKED GOOD
TOGETHER.
THEY WERE ALMOST LIKE
THE LATIN KEN AND BARBIE.
JUST SIX MONTHS AFTER THEY
MET, JUAN PABLO POPPED THE QUESTION.
BUT ANA TOOK HER TIME.
THREE YEARS LATER,
SHE AND JUAN PABLO TIED THE KNOT
ON APRIL 1, 1995...
APRIL FOOLS' DAY.
I JUST REMEMBER
FEELING PEACEFUL,
LIKE, "THIS IS THE PERSON
I'M GONNA BE WITH
FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE."
ANA'S NEW HUSBAND WAS
ALREADY A HOUSEHOLD NAME IN MIAMI,
AND HE HAD BECOME
EVEN MORE POPULAR
WHEN HE JOINED THE PRESTIGIOUS
GROUP "BROTHERS TO THE RESCUE."
"BROTHERS TO THE RESCUE" WAS
A GROUP OF VOLUNTEER PILOTS
WHO SEARCHED THE FLORIDA STRAITS
FOR RAFTERS
WHO WERE SEEKING FREEDOM.
THEY WERE VIEWED AS HEROES,
GOING OUT EVERY WEEKEND,
SOMETIMES DURING THE WEEK.
HAD MORE THAN A DOZEN
VOLUNTEER PILOTS
WHO WOULD FLY THEIR OWN PLANES,
SPEND THEIR OWN MONEY ON FUEL.
THEY WERE LITERALLY SAVING LIVES
IN THE FLORIDA STRAITS...
YOU KNOW, RAFTERS
WHO WOULD POSSIBLY HAVE DIED
IF IT WEREN'T FOR THESE PILOTS.
WHEN HE WASN'T VOLUNTEERING,
JUAN PABLO TOOK ODD JOBS
TO HELP MAKE ENDS MEET.
HE SEEMED WILLING TO DO
ALMOST ANYTHING FOR ANA.
SHE WAS HAPPY BEING A WIFE.
SHE WAS HAPPY HAVING THE FAMILY.
SO, YEAH,
SHE WAS HAPPY BEING IN LOVE.
BUT THEIR HONEYMOON WAS
ABOUT TO COME TO AN ABRUPT END.
IN FEBRUARY OF 1996, JUST
10 MONTHS INTO THEIR MARRIAGE,
JUAN PABLO ANNOUNCED
HE WAS TAKING A LAST-MINUTE JOB
IN KEY WEST,
SEVERAL HOURS FROM HOME.
SOMETHING TOLD ME
IT WAS NOT QUITE RIGHT.
JUAN PABLO TOLD HER
HE NEEDED TO HELP A FRIEND MOVE
HIS YACHT FOR THE EXTRA CASH.
BUT ANA DIDN'T
WANT HIM TO LEAVE TOWN.
I WAS SO UNEASY WITH IT
THAT I ASKED HIM NOT TO DO IT.
AND HE GOT ANGRY.
AND SO I DIDN'T WANT TO
ARGUE ABOUT IT,
SO I DIDN'T BRING IT UP ANYMORE.
WHEN JUAN PABLO LEFT
FOR HIS TRIP LATER THAT NIGHT,
ANA COULDN'T SHAKE THE FEELING
THAT SOMETHING WAS WRONG.
I HAD A VERY, VERY STRANGE
FEELING IN THE MORNING.
I MUST HAVE TRIED HIS NUMBER
50 TIMES.
THE FACT THAT HE WASN'T
ANSWERING HIS PHONE CALLS
AND HE WASN'T CALLING US
TO SEE HOW WE WERE DOING
DEFINITELY WORRIED ME.
A WOMAN'S INTUITION
IS RARELY WRONG.
ANA'S HUSBAND WAS MISSING,
ALL RIGHT,
AND HIS DISAPPEARANCE WAS ABOUT
TO CAUSE A MEDIA FRENZY.
WELL, THE PHONE CALL
FROM MY EDITOR SAID THAT
TWO "BROTHERS TO THE RESCUE"
PLANES HAD BEEN SHOT DOWN.
I WAS SO EXTREMELY NERVOUS.
IN FEBRUARY 1996,
ANA MARGARITA'S HUSBAND
LEFT FOR A TRIP TO KEY WEST
AND NEVER RETURNED HOME.
BUT 10 MONTHS BEFORE
HIS MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE,
ANA BEGAN TO REALIZE
JUAN PABLO WASN'T EXACTLY
THE PERFECT HUSBAND.
HE FIBBED A LITTLE.
I NOTICED THAT,
AND THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS
THAT WE ARGUED ABOUT.
AND AS JUAN PABLO'S
SOCIAL CIRCLE GREW,
ANA WASN'T ALWAYS THRILLED
WITH THE COMPANY HE KEPT.
ONE DINNER GUEST IN PARTICULAR
MADE HER FEEL LIKE AN OUTSIDER
IN HER OWN HOME.
HE WAS A FELLOW
"BROTHERS TO THE RESCUE" PILOT
WHO HAD BECOME QUITE CLOSE
TO JUAN PABLO.
THEY GOT TOGETHER QUITE OFTEN
AND TALKED,
AND, ON OCCASION,
THEY WOULD SPEAK IN RUSSIAN.
WHEN I ASKED,
YOU KNOW, WHAT WAS GOING ON,
THEY SAID THAT, YOU KNOW,
THEY JUST NEEDED TO PRACTICE
BECAUSE, OTHERWISE,
THEY WOULD FORGET THE LANGUAGE.
ANA THOUGHT IT WAS ODD,
BUT SHE KNEW BOTH MEAN LEARNED
RUSSIAN IN THE CUBAN AIR FORCE,
BACK WHEN THE MILITARY
WAS RUN BY THE SOVIET UNION.
IT MADE ME FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE,
BUT, YOU KNOW,
HE EXPLAINED IT AWAY.
HE SAID THAT
THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THINGS
PERTAINING
TO "BROTHERS TO THE RESCUE"
AND THEIR ACTIVISM AND CUBA.
WHILE JUAN PABLO ALWAYS
SEEMED TO KNOW WHAT TO SAY TO ANA,
AROUND HER FAMILY,
HE WAS A MAN OF FEW WORDS.
HIS PERSONALITY
WAS JUST FLATTER THAN A PANCAKE.
HE WASN'T
A VERY GREAT CONVERSATIONALIST.
A CONVERSATION
WAS VERY "YES," "NO"...
AND VERY MILITARY, VERY
ABBREVIATED, VERY, VERY BRIEF.
AND BEHIND CLOSED DOORS,
ANA'S HUSBAND
WAS BECOMING UNPREDICTABLE.
HE WAS CONTROLLING
AND MANIPULATIVE,
BUT WHAT BALANCED IT WAS
THAT HE LIKED TO MAKE ME HAPPY.
HE WOULD DO THINGS
JUST TO PLEASE ME.
BY FEBRUARY 1996, JUAN
PABLO'S BEHAVIOR WAS DOWNRIGHT PECULIAR.
AT TIMES, HE SEEMED PARANOID,
ESPECIALLY
AFTER SOME NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS
TRIED TO PULL A SILLY PRANK.
I GOT A CALL FROM MY NEIGHBOR,
TELLING ME THAT SOME KIDS
HAD ATTEMPTED
TO BREAK INTO MY HOUSE,
AND THEY HAD ACTUALLY BROKEN
MY WINDOW.
SO I TOLD HIM WHAT HAD HAPPENED,
AND HE TOTALLY OVERREACTED.
HE SAID
SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES OF,
"THAT WAS MEANT FOR ME.
IT'S BECAUSE OF ME."
ANA MARGARITA PRESSED
HER HUSBAND FOR MORE DETAILS,
BUT HE REFUSED
TO EXPLAIN HIMSELF.
FROM THAT NIGHT ON, JUAN PABLO
SEEMED LIKE A DIFFERENT MAN,
ALWAYS LOOKING OVER
HIS SHOULDER.
HE WAS GETTING AGITATED.
HE WAS WAKING UP
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT,
TOSSING AND TURNING A LOT.
HE WAS VERY STRESSED,
VERY STRESSED.
AND I COULDN'T UNDERSTAND
WHAT WAS GOING ON,
AND HE SAID
IT WAS JUST ALL WORK-RELATED.
ANA MARGARITA SENSED
THAT JUAN PABLO
WAS KEEPING SOMETHING FROM HER,
BUT SHE HAD NO IDEA WHAT.
AND SHE WOULD NEVER HAVE
A CHANCE TO ASK HIM AGAIN.
ON FEBRUARY 24, 1996,
JUAN PABLO LEFT
FOR AN ODD JOB IN KEY WEST
AND NEVER RETURNED HOME.
I FELT LOST.
I FELT DESPERATE.
AFTER HEARING NOTHING ALL DAY,
ANA WAS CONVINCED
HER HUSBAND WAS MISSING.
I WAS JUST BESIDE MYSELF.
I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG,
AND I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.
SO I CALLED A FRIEND,
AND HE SAID, "WELL, WHY DON'T
YOU LOOK THROUGH HIS THINGS?
"LOOK THROUGH HIS DRAWERS,
SEE IF ANYTHING'S MISSING.
LOOK FOR CLUES."
AND WHEN ANA SEARCHED
HIS DRESSER,
SHE COULDN'T BELIEVE HER EYES.
I WAS SHOCKED THAT
EVERY TIME I OPENED A DRAWER,
IT WAS PRACTICALLY EMPTY.
MOST OF HIS BELONGINGS
WERE GONE.
JUST WHEN ANA
DIDN'T KNOW WHERE TO TURN,
SHE REMEMBERED
SOMETHING JUAN PABLO TOLD HER
BEFORE HE LEFT FOR THE TRIP.
HE EMPHASIZED TWICE, AT LEAST,
THE DAY BEFORE LEAVING...
HE TOLD ME, "IF YOU NEED TO MOVE
THE CAR FOR ANY REASON,
REMEMBER THAT I KEEP AN EXTRA
SET OF KEYS IN THE DRAWER."
ANA RACED TO FIND
JUAN PABLO'S JEEP,
NOT SURE WHAT SHE WOULD FIND.
THE JEEP WAS EXACTLY
WHERE HE SAID IT WOULD BE...
IN A MIAMI PARKING GARAGE.
AND ANA'S HUSBAND LEFT SOMETHING
VERY TELLING INSIDE.
WHEN I OPENED THE CAR,
THE ONLY THING I FOUND
WAS HIS FULL SET OF KEYS
AND HIS CELLPHONE.
WHEN YOU SEE A FULL SET OF KEYS
INSIDE A CAR,
IT TELLS YOU
THE PERSON'S NOT COMING BACK.
TWO DAYS LATER,
CONFUSION TURNED TO PANIC
WHEN ANA AWOKE
TO STARTLING NEWS.
IT TOPPLED ABOUT THREE TIMES.
IT FIREBALLED.
ACCORDING TO NEWS REPORTS,
SEVERAL MEMBERS OF "BROTHERS
TO THE RESCUE" WERE DEAD,
SHOT DOWN BY CUBAN MiGs
OVER THE FLORIDA STRAITS.
I MEAN,
FOUR AMERICANS ARE KILLED
AND, YOU KNOW, TWO PLANES
BY THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT.
IT'S A BIG STORY.
EVERYBODY WAS HERE FROM EVERY
STATION ALL OVER THE PLACE.
I WAS LIKE, "MAN.
"COULD HE HAVE BEEN PLANNING
TO BE WITH THEM
"AND NOT WANTING TO WORRY US
AND HE WENT OFF ON THIS MISSION
WITH THEM AND WE DON'T KNOW?"
FOUR PILOTS WERE CONFIRMED DEAD,
BUT ANA DIDN'T KNOW
IF JUAN PABLO WAS ONE OF THEM.
HOURS AFTER THE INCIDENT, ANA
LEARNED OF HER HUSBAND'S FATE
FROM A MEMBER
OF "BROTHERS TO THE RESCUE."
I ASKED HIM,
"IS IT POSSIBLE THAT...
MY HUSBAND MAY HAVE BEEN
ON ONE OF THOSE PLANES?"
AND HE TOLD ME,
"NO, HE WAS DEFINITELY NOT."
SO MY HUSBAND WAS STILL MISSING.
MISSING, BUT NOT FOR LONG.
ANA'S HUSBAND WAS ABOUT TO CAUSE
AN INTERNATIONAL SCANDAL.
A REPORTER CAME TO MY DOOR.
HE SAID,
"TURN ON YOUR TV AND WATCH CNN."
THREE DAYS AFTER
SHE KISSED HER HUSBAND GOODBYE,
ANA MARGARITA MARTINEZ WAS STILL
AGONIZING OVER HIS WHEREABOUTS.
JUST WHEN SHE THOUGHT SHE'D
NEVER SEE JUAN PABLO AGAIN,
A REPORTER SHOWED UP
AT HER DOOR,
ARMED WITH ASTONISHING NEWS
ABOUT HER HUSBAND.
HE SAID,
"TURN ON YOUR TV AND WATCH CNN."
AND WHEN I DID THAT,
I SAW MY HUSBAND DISEMBARK
A CUBANA DE AVIAClóN AIRPLANE
IN HAVANA.
HE HAD HIS RAY-BANS ON,
HE HAD HIS WEDDING RING ON,
HE HAD THE CHAIN AND CROSS
THAT I'D GIVEN HIM ON,
AND HE HAD HIS ROLEX.
ANA'S HUSBAND
WAS BACK IN CUBA...
THE VERY COUNTRY
HE SAID HE DESPISED.
I THOUGHT HE WAS CRAZY.
I THOUGHT... I THOUGHT HE MUST
HAVE BEEN FORCED TO GO BACK.
I THOUGHT, UM, YOU KNOW,
THEY BLACKMAILED HIM.
WHEN JUAN PABLO GRANTED
HIS FIRST TELEVISION INTERVIEW
THAT VERY SAME DAY, HE PROUDLY
DENOUNCED THE UNITED STATES,
CUBAN EXILES,
AND "BROTHERS TO THE RESCUE,"
CLAIMING THE GROUP WAS
REALLY A BUNCH OF TERRORISTS.
HE JUST APPEARED
ON CUBAN TELEVISION,
SAYING THAT WHAT CUBA HAD DONE
WAS STOP A TERRORIST ATTACK.
I KNEW THIS WASN'T TRUE.
AND I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND
WHY HE'D SAY THESE THINGS.
AND I REMEMBER TELLING MY MOM,
"HE LOOKS LIKE
HE HASN'T SLEPT IN DAYS.
"THEY HAVE BRAINWASHED HIM,
AND THEY ARE FORCING HIM
TO SAY THESE THINGS."
THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT
OF THE WHOLE INTERVIEW
WAS WHEN HE SAID
HE HAD PENETRATED
"BROTHERS TO THE RESCUE."
IN THE INTELLIGENCE WORLD,
THAT'S CODE FOR, "I AM A SPY."
IT WAS A THREE-LETTER WORD
THAT ANA DIDN'T WANT TO BELIEVE.
PEOPLE IMMEDIATELY STARTED
TO SAY THAT HE WAS A SPY
AND THAT HE HAD BEEN
ON A MISSION HERE IN THE STATES.
I JUST COULD NOT ACCEPT THAT.
BUT U.S. OFFICIALS
BELIEVED IT WAS NO COINCIDENCE
THAT JUAN PABLO DISAPPEARED
THE DAY BEFORE THE SHOOTDOWN.
BY VOLUNTEERING
WITH "BROTHERS TO THE RESCUE,"
HE CLEARLY KNEW THE INS AND OUTS
OF THE OPERATION.
THEY HAD TO HAVE
GREAT INTELLIGENCE
TO KNOW
WHERE EVERYTHING WAS GONNA BE,
BECAUSE HOW WOULD
THEY HAVE KNOWN THE FLIGHT PLAN?
SO IT WAS CLEAR TO EVERYONE
THAT THE SHOOTDOWN
HAD BEEN PREMEDITATED
AND THAT HE WAS A CENTRAL FIGURE
IN THE SHOOTDOWN.
I STOOD BY HIS SIDE.
I FELT
THAT HE HAD TO HAVE BEEN FORCED.
AND, NO, MY HUSBAND
WAS NOT A SPY. OF COURSE NOT.
BUT WHEN A WOMAN LIKE
ANA REALIZES SHE'S BEEN DUPED,
SHE GETS EVEN
WITH THE HELP OF A LAWYER.
HE SAID,
"WE'RE GONNA SUE CUBA FOR RAPE."
BY FEBRUARY 1996,
ANA MARGARITA MARTINEZ'S
MARRIAGE TO JUAN PABLO ROQUE,
NOW AN ACCUSED SPY,
WAS THE TALK OF MIAMI.
IN SOUTH FLORIDA,
THEY LOVE TWO THINGS...
NEWS ABOUT CUBA AND SOAP OPERAS,
WHICH IN SPANISH,
WE CALL NOVELLAS.
AND HERE WAS THIS COMBINATION
OF THESE TWO THINGS...
A CUBAN NOVELLA
THAT YOU JUST COULD NOT MAKE UP.
EVERYONE WANTED TO KNOW MORE
ABOUT THE WIFE WHO STUBBORNLY
DEFENDED HER HUSBAND,
EVEN AFTER HE TOLD THE WORLD
HE DIDN'T MISS HER AT ALL.
IN A PUBLISHED ARTICLE,
THEY ASKED HIM WHAT HE MISSED
MOST ABOUT THE U.S.
AND HE SAID HIS JEEP CHEROKEE.
I FELT THAT HE WAS SAYING THIS
TO PROTECT ME.
THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT WOULDN'T BE
PLEASED WITH HIM SAYING,
"I MISS MY WIFE
AND I MISS MY STEPKIDS."
THAT'S HOW I JUSTIFIED IT.
WHAT SHE FELT
WAS LOYALTY TO HER MAN,
WHICH I DIDN'T AND MANY MEMBERS
OF THE COMMUNITY DIDN'T FEEL.
90% OF ME THOUGHT THAT HE WAS,
YOU KNOW, DEFINITELY A SPY
AND HE HAD HOODWINKED EVERYBODY,
INCLUDING HER.
WAS JUAN PABLO,
THE FAMOUS CUBAN DEFECTOR,
REALLY TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE?
IT MADE EVERYONE SECOND-GUESS
HIS INITIAL STORY OF DEFECTION.
THIS MAGNIFICENT STORY
OF A 17-MILE SWIM,
GETTING HIT BY SHARKS, AND
SWIMMING INTO GUANTANAMO BAY
REALLY DIDN'T SEEM TO HOLD UP.
BUT FOR ANA,
THE WOMAN WHO THOUGHT SHE
FINALLY HAD MARRIED MR. RIGHT,
THAT WAS HARD TO ACCEPT.
ACCEPTING THAT HE WAS A SPY
WAS A LONG PROCESS.
AND IT TURNS OUT THAT
EVERYTHING HE SAID WAS A LIE.
EVERYTHING HE DID WAS A LIE.
FOUR YEARS TOGETHER
WERE ALL A LIE.
THEY WERE PART OF HIS MISSION,
PART OF WHAT HE HAD TO DO.
IN 1998, ANA HAD HER
MARRIAGE TO JUAN PABLO ANNULLED
AND GAVE HIS BELOVED JEEP
TO HER BROTHER.
BUT ANA DIDN'T STOP THERE.
SHE WAS DETERMINED TO GET EVEN.
SO WITH THE HELP OF HER LAWYER,
ANA CAME UP WITH A VERY CLEVER
PLAN FOR REVENGE.
SHE SUED THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT
FOR RAPE
AND WON $27 MILLION IN DAMAGES.
IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA, RAPE IS
DEFINED AS SEX WITHOUT CONSENT.
AND SINCE MY CONSENT
WAS PROCURED FRAUDULENTLY,
IT'S NOT VALID.
IF I LEARNED NOW THAT
MY EX-HUSBAND WAS A CUBAN SPY
AND HAD ONLY MARRIED ME
AS PART OF HIS COVER
AND THAT ALL THE INTIMACY
THAT WE SHARED WAS FAKE,
I THINK THAT, YEAH,
I'D FEEL VIOLATED. DEFINITELY.
THE REASON THE LAWSUIT
IS AGAINST THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT
IS BECAUSE HE WAS ACTING
UNDER THEIR DIRECTION
100% OF THE TIME.
HE COULD NEVER HAVE MARRIED ME
WITHOUT
THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT'S APPROVAL.
IN ORDER TO PULL OFF
HIS ROLE AS A SPY,
JUAN PABLO NEEDED THE PERFECT
COVER... AN UNSUSPECTING WIFE.
THAT MAKES HIM A MUCH MORE
BELIEVABLE, SOLID PERSON
IF YOU'RE MARRIED AND YOU HAVE
KIDS AND YOU HAVE A FAMILY.
IF YOU'RE A SINGLE MAN,
YOU'RE MUCH MORE SUSPICIOUS.
IF YOU'RE HUNTING
FOR AN AMERICAN WIFE,
WHERE ARE YOU GONNA FIND
THE MOST UNSUSPECTING WOMEN?
AND THE ANSWER IS
AT SUNDAY SCHOOL.
AND ANA MARGARITA MARTINEZ
WAS ALREADY DIVORCED.
SO SHE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN
MORE VULNERABLE
AT THAT POINT IN HER LIFE.
I THINK HE SMELLED
BLOOD ON THE WATER.
WHILE THE U.S.
SEES JUAN PABLO AS A FUGITIVE,
IN HIS HOMELAND, HE'S A HERO,
PROTECTED
BY THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT.
HE WAS PROMOTED
TO LIEUTENANT COLONEL
AND RELOCATED
TO A VERY NICE RESIDENCE.
IF JUAN PABLO
EVER STEPS FOOT OUTSIDE OF CUBA,
HE WILL SPEND THE REST OF
HIS LIFE IN AN AMERICAN PRISON.
IT HASN'T BEEN EASY,
BUT ANA MARGARITA IS DETERMINED
TO FINALLY PUT JUAN PABLO'S
DECEPTION BEHIND HER.
HOW DOES IT FEEL WHEN YOU TRUST
SOMEONE WITH YOUR LIFE,
WITH THE LIVES OF YOUR CHILDREN,
AND HE TURNS OUT TO BE SOMEONE
THAT YOU NEVER REALLY KNEW?
IT'S EXTREMELY TRAUMATIC.
HOW DO YOU TRUST AGAIN?
WHEN YOU FALL IN LOVE,
YOU PRETTY MUCH
GOT TO PREPARE YOURSELF.
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN.
YOU CAN REALLY THINK
YOU KNOW SOMEBODY,
AND THAT PERSON CAN HAVE
SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET
LIKE YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE.
DESPITE ALL THE YEARS
OF HEARTACHE,
ANA HASN'T COMPLETELY LOST HOPE
IN A FAIRY-TALE ENDING.
I DON'T THINK I WANT TO
LIVE LIFE DOUBTING EVERYONE.
I HOPE I WILL FIND SOMEONE
OR MEET SOMEONE
THAT WILL TRULY LOVE ME
AND WHO I CAN REALLY,
ALSO, LOVE.