Cuban Refugees Flee Cuba, Transit Honduras to Reach America @ 02:09 pm
Check out the verbiage of this AP story about "Cuban migrants". A boatload of people spent 2 weeks at sea, including a day surrounded by sharks with a broken motor, but finally made it to Honduras. The story has interesting information about new routes being used by Cubans to reach the US and to elude interdiction off Florida. But the most interesting part of the AP coverage is what the AP doesn't say: Cubans, even after relaxation of rules about what Cubans can or can't buy --- yay, cell phones that cost half a year's wages --- still are risking their lives in open jury-rigged "boats" in order to get away from Communist Cuba and come to America.
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