As Cubans flee crisis, these nuns care for elders left behind

HAVANA – Sister Cecilia María Fuentes Ávila marched through the sun-drenched grounds of the nursing home, greeting the fragile older women others had forgotten.Some, like 79-year-old Yvonne Martínez Padrón, had lived at the facility for more than a decade – divorced and destitute, with nowhere else to turn, she was grateful to be here.