More desperate Cubans trying to escape from the brothers Castro gulag. This never happened during the Batista government. The Castroit regime violates article 13 of the international declaration of human rights by restricting Cubans to leave and enter their country.
For supporters of the Castroit regime in the U.S., the "reforms" are nothing short of marvelous. But for the many Cubans, however, throwing themselves into the shark-infested waters of the Florida Straits in an attempt to escape those "reforms" is still a viable option.
The endless flow of Cubans rafters to the U.S. has the tragic result of many people (50% of the rafters) dying at sea. In certain way many of us are bear some responsibility due to our inaction and apathy on the plight and suffering of the Cuban people.Small fleet of Cuban boats grows in the Keys
Small fleet of Cuban boats grows in the Keys - Florida Keys - MiamiHerald.com
BY KEVIN WADLOW AND DAVID GOODHUE
Posted 05/ 28/ 2013
Officers Janette Fernandez Costoya and Sebastian Dri check a fleet of Cuban refugee crafts crowding a channel at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Islamorada station at Whale Harbor. Seven of the home-built boats have been recovered off the Upper Keys since mid-April. KEVIN WADLOW / KeysNet.com
Boats assembled from roofing tin, scrap lumber and foam plastic form a ramshackle fleet moored off Islamorada's Whale Harbor.
"People have to be really desperate to go to sea aboard one of these," said Officer Janette Fernandez Costoya of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
The collection of recovered refugee crafts from Cuba temporarily stored at the agency’s Whale Harbor station grew Friday when the seventh homemade vessel in five weeks was recovered from the Atlantic off the Upper Keys.
One is a welded rebar frame packed with plastic foam sheets and spray-foam insulation. Others float on hulls of hammered sheet metal barely hanging onto wooden frames.
"They've usually got an engine they pulled out of some vehicle, or a makeshift sail," Costoya said, hefting a mast fashioned by popping branches from a tree limb still covered with bark.
If you want to know how well the "reforms" of the totalitarian Castroit regime are working out for the Cuban people, just ask the authorities of Cayman Islands, Cuba's southeastern coast close neighbor. The Caymans government said that “is looking at contingency planning for another mass influx of migrants, whether from Cuba or Haiti or elsewhere.” There you have the answer.
The Cuban people that supposedly are benefiting from the reforms of the Castroit tyrannical regime, with their continuous attempts to escape from the workers island paradise, expose the failures of such reforms.
Seems that these Cubans rafters haven’t heard how much life in Cuba has improved due to the reforms implemented by the tyrannical Castroit regime.
These Cubans are fortunate they aren't treated like other illegal immigrants.
Seem that these Cuban balseros were not aware of the changes taking place in Cuba thanks to the magnanimous decrees under Castro II leadership. These changes, according to the so call “Cuba Experts”, have converted the island in a people paradise, or shall we say a blood sucking parasite that feed on the warm blooded Cubans.
Seem that these Cuban balseros were not aware of the changes taking place in Cuba thanks to the magnanimous decrees under Castro II leadership. These changes, according to the so call “Cuba Experts”, have converted the island in a people paradise, or shall we say a blood sucking parasite that feed on the warm blooded Cubans.
The number of Cubans escaping from the Castroit gulag keeps increasing, notwithstanding the regime liberalized travel restrictions in January of 2013. Another 50 more Cuban rafters trying to escape from the workers’ paradise.
It is great that these people make it ashore. Cuban exiles have a very positive influence in the economic growth of the state of Florida.11 Cubans reach shore in Hollywood
11 Cubans reach shore in Hollywood - Broward - MiamiHerald.com
By Wayne K. Roustan Sun Sentinel
Posted 09/10/2013
Eleven people, thought to be Cuban refugees, came ashore Tuesday in a boat on Hollywood beach, in the 4600 block of State Road A1A, at the Charleston Street beach entrance. They pose for a photo shortly after arriving. Courtesy of Pamela Smilack / Sun Sentinel
Eleven jubilant Cuban immigrants dropped to their knees and kissed the ground Monday afternoon after their boat came ashore on Hollywood beach.
Some of the men cheered and posed for pictures snapped by beachgoers. The lifeguard stationed a few dozen yards from the 20-foot boat’s landing spot also took some pictures, then called Hollywood police, Sgt. Pablo Vanegas said.
"Eleven adults jumped off the boat and ran toward North Ocean Drive," he said. "They appeared to be from Cuba, immigrants."
The best way to solve a problem is to attack its cause. Since the Cuban people cannot vote out of power the Castroit tyrannical regime, the other alternative would be to force it out by the use of force. The logical thing to do is help the opposition with arms and money to fight the Castroit military in order to get rid of it.U.S. Coast Guard repatriates 63 Cubans
U.S. Coast Guard repatriates 63 Cubans - Cuba - MiamiHerald.com
BY JUAN O. TAMAYO
jtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com
Posted on 10/03/2013
Crew members of the Coast Guard Cutter Key Biscayne arrive on scene to interdict 21 Cuban immigrants on Sept. 27, 2013.
CHIEF PETTY OFFICER DAVID YOUNG / U.S. COAST GUARD
The U.S. Coast Guard announced Thursday that the Cutter Margaret Norvell had returned 63 Cubans interdicted at sea to the port of Cabañas west of Havana.
The 63 were interdicted in five separate events between the 25th and 29th of September, according to the statement.
A Coast Guard photo that accompanied the announcement showed one of the interdictions, involving crewmembers from the Cutter Key Biscayne and 21 Cuban migrants stopped on Sept. 27 as they headed to the United States.
All the Cubans intercepted at sea were later gathered in the cutter Margaret Norvell for their repatriation to the island.
Under the U.S. government’s “wet-foot, dry-foot policy,” undocumented Cuban migrants who set foot on U.S. territory are allowed to stay, while those interdicted at sea are generally returned to the island unless they show a fear of persecution if repatriated.
Despised the liberalization of the travel restrictions by the Castroit regime, the number of Cubans leaving the island illegally have increased to more than double with respect to the previous year. Cubans keep fleeing the regime "reforms" of the regime in record numbers.
The Castroit tyrannical regime, blocking the legal exit of Cuban nationals, has created a hostage situation forcing thousands upon thousands of Cubans to risk their lives to escape from the island of Dr. Castro.
How is possible that Cubans escape from a place with “one of the best educational and health care system”, and the many benefits for those who live under it. They escape because they know the reality of living in the island of Dr. Castro.
This is one more example of the awful condition under the Castroit tyrannical regime. Three Cubans trying to escape on windsurfing boards, incredible that some people attempts to travel across the Florida Straits that way. Why minimal attention is giving to these people, when others received lot of attention like Diana Nyad swim from Cuba to Florida across the Florida Straits?