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Five Cuban rafters die at sea in attempt to leave country

The light house is considered US soil. The law is in their side. They will be staying.
 
Unfortunately I was wrong, after 39 days in the lighthouse a federal judge ruled that the wet foot, dry foot policy does not extend to the lighthouse, which is located 6.5 nautical miles off Sugarloaf Key.
 

The US $600 per month they can get in US welfare benefits spends pretty well in Cuba. They can just leave their EBT cards with relatives in Miami and Western Union their monthly check anywhere on the island. What a deal!
 
SDET said:
The US $600 per month they can get in US welfare benefits spends pretty well in Cuba. They can just leave their EBT cards with relatives in Miami and Western Union their monthly check anywhere on the island. What a deal!
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Many of the Cubans trying to escape from paradise’s island have drowned, others have been found dead in containers ships, in the wheel well of airplanes, etc. Those risk takers that have manage to survived, are the ones we should be welcoming instead of sending them back.
 
It is very frustrating that due to the U.S.-Cuba arrangement they are send back to the island. It takes so much desperation and courage to escape in makeshift rafts and near the end of the road to be send back to hell hole of the Castroit tyrannical regime.
 
Since President Obama rapprochement with the Castroit regime the condition in the island has deteriorated. Most Cubans did not see Obama when he was in Cuba or saw him on TV. Many Cubans worry that the policy of wet-foot, dry-foot could be ended soon and that is the main reason they are fleeing in great numbers.
 

Yes, Obama actually celebrated the Cuban suffering and praised Castro for what he was doing.
 
It takes a lot of desperation and courage to escape in makeshift rafts. People do not flee from freedom and prosperity. This escape from the “worker paradise” has ended tragically. Twenty Cuban escaping from the Castroit gulag have lost their live.
 
Cuban rafters continue to die in the strait of Florida. Is another sign of the fail approach of the Obama administration in its dealing with the Castroit regime. The desperation of the Cuban people keep increasing, as they look for any means to escape from the “island paradise” regardless of the consequences.
 

Just came back. Spent 3 days in Havana and 11 in Varadero. Had some real interesting conversations with locals. It does seem to me, the general consensus is for more money but I didn't get the feeling of absolute desperation, like I have in other places I've visited.
 
Have you succumbed to the siren son of the Castroit regime?
 
Sandokan said:
Have you succumbed to the siren son of the Castroit regime?
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It was just a glimpse of life. I've succumbed to the conversations of ordinary Cubans
 
gunner said:
It was just a glimpse of life. I've succumbed to the conversations of ordinary Cubans
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Cuban rafters continue to die in the strait of Florida. Is another sign of the fail approach of the Obama administration in its dealing with the Castroit regime. The desperation of the Cuban people keep increasing, as they look for any means to escape from the “island paradise” regardless of the consequences.
 
Since the 1994 migration agreements with then President Bill Clinton, the US consulate in Havana has awarded at least 20,000 visas a year, which gives us a figure of 440,000 people at a minimum. And only in the last two years, almost 100,000 people have gone to the United States via underground routes.
 
Raul Castro’s reforms are so good and so welcome by the Cuban people that they continue escaping from the island of Dr. Castro on rickety rafts. It is like a never ending movie.
 
According to the mainstream media, Cuba is great place to live. They said that people there have great education and healthcare systems. If that is the case, why are they leaving in such great numbers? Progressives that like the Castroit regime so much, should leave for Cuba and live there. Free education and healthcare, and a ration food book. They would love it.
 
According to the mainstream media, Cuba is great place to live. They said that people there have great education and healthcare systems. If that is the case, why are they leaving in such great numbers? Progressives that like the Castroit regime so much, should leave for Cuba and live there. Free education and healthcare, and a ration food book. They would love it.
 
Sensing the termination of the ‘wet food, dry foot’ policy by the Obama administration, Cuban rafters are fleeing in great number attempting to reach U.S. soil through the strait of Florida. There numbers had dramatically increasing during 2016. Their desperation and urgency to escape from the Castroit tyrannical regime outwait the dangers of sailing in poorly constructed and overcrowded rafts at the cost of losing their lives in the attempt, as so many of them had.
 
The distance between Cuba and Ireland is about 4,200 miles. But a makeshift boat that Cubans rafters use to escape from the island washed up in a beach on the west coast of Ireland. It is possible that ocean currents took it off course and washed up it on the beach. It was possible to identify the origin of the boat due to the fact of the Cuban label on the water bottles inside it and the yellow tarpaulin, the same type used on the Cubans makeshift rafts.

Like Fowler pointed out in the article, “While the fate of those on board may never be known, the discovery has helped to bring the story of the Cuban refugees to people thousands of miles away.”


When Gordon Fallis checked the water bottles it was clear where they came from
 

Look, am not an admirer of Castro. Worked with many Cuban refugees back in the day. But people leaving the island are essentially no different than Haitians fleeing poverty or Central Americans fleeing gang violence, except that Cubans are by law guaranteed resettlement in the US, or at least they used to be. Guarantee the same benefits to, say, Dominicans and watch that country empty.
 

lMany refugees have crossed the border into Manitoba after having trudged miles through freezing winter conditions, several loosing fingers to frostbite, to escape the US.
What's your point?
 
Sandokan said:
Like Fowler pointed out in the article, “While the fate of those on board may never be known, the discovery has helped to bring the story of the Cuban refugees to people thousands of miles away.”
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Why didn't Fowler point out in the article the war crimes, the terrorism, the stealing of the Cuban people's wealth by the uSA, the grand folks who sought to give liberty to Filipinos, Cubans, ... from Spain and ended up raping and pillaging just like Spain?

Then, after the Cuban people took back their country, the USA has been practicing a genocidal embargo for 58 years. For the last quarter century, the world, in the UNGA, except for, guess who, the US and Israel, have been condemning the USA for its terrorism against Cuba.

The world's leading terrorist group/"nation", the USA.
 
Americans love to milk events like this. It makes for grand propaganda - always gotta feed the mill.

But where is the concern for the millions the US has slaughtered, the planned US genocide against the Iraqi people in the 1990s, the planned use of the Afghan people to "give the USSR its own Vietnam".

"The high level of civilian casualties that this would certainly entail was considered but set aside. According to one senior official, "The question here was whether it was morally acceptable that, in order to keep the Soviets off balance, which was the reason for the operation, it was permissible to use other lives for our geopolitical interests." Carter's CIA director Stansfield Turner answered the question: "I decided I could live with that." According to Representative Charles Wilson, a Texas Democrat, ..."

Afghanistan, the CIA, bin Laden, and the Taliban
 

What "genocide" are you babbling about in Iraq?

The vast majority of deaths was IRAQI on IRAQI violence.... And continue to this day.
 
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