Born in Havana Cuba, (exactly fifty years earlier, commercial telephone service using radio began between New York and London.} At age fifteen, Ariel built a satellite dish enabling him to watch government forbidden foreign television. Using a coffee can, a Soviet radio transformer and other components he found in his father's radio shack, he created the equivalent of the Cuban DirecTV Corporation in just a few months of hard work.

He wasn't aware of the outcome at the moment, but with ingenuity and a great deal of courage, he was able to liberate his mother from the oppressive Communist rule and shortly after that, earned his freedom and migrated to the United States in a story that is the Cuban equivalent of the DaVinci Code.