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Five Cuban rafters die at sea in attempt to leave country

Mexico rescues 6 Cubans from drifting boat
Because the pact they signed for sure the Mexican authorities will deport them to the island of Dr. Castro. But at the same time the Mexico’s government is very critical of the US because it return the illegal immigrants back to Mexico since they have violated the immigration laws. This is double standard in their part. Mexican immigrants aren’t punished by Mexico laws when they are back, but the Cubans exiles are punished very harshly by the Castroit regime laws.
 
More desperate Cubans trying to escape from the brothers Castro gulag. This never happened during the Batista government.
 
Sandokan said:
Five Cuban rafters die at sea in attempt to leave country
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Better that they died out there rather than live to mooch off the American tax payers.
 
Another Cuban dies at sea, one more victim of the Castros’ tyrannical dynasty. The right to travel is a human right concept that most countries respect. The Castroit regime violates article 13 of the international declaration of human rights by restricting Cubans to leave and enter their country. This is the main cause of these deaths.
 
Pointy said:
They have arguably the finest Health care in the entire World freely available (so long as you are a member of the Cuban Communist party), otherwise not so good.
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Nonsense. Cuban hospitals don't ask for your party membership papers when you go in. At most they ask for your ID(carnet) and then tend to you.
 
liblady said:
i'm a lefty and i don't believe cuba is a wonderful place to live. they do have decent healthcare, however.
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And those crazy Cubans still aren't happy. 'Magine that.
 
Those that blame the US for receiving refugees are like those that blamed the deaths of the Cambodians that fled the killing fields of Pol Pot's on the nations that gave them shelter. They too were denied the right to leave.
 
The Vietnamese regime is responsible for the death at sea of thousands of "boat people". The East German communist regime is responsible for the death of all killed trying to flee one way or another. The Cuban regime is responsible for each Cuban trying to fleei that died at sea.
 
. The Cuban escaping from the “worker paradise” is like a never ending movie. It is really very frustrating that due to the U.S. policy they are send back to the island of Dr. Castro. 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.
 
This is all the Castros tyrannical regime can offer its people after 53 years of rule. All they have left is more violence against the people. The regime continuous to stifle freedom of expression on the island, in spite of a much publicized releases of political prisoners.
 
It is not common for a Cuban American to be there just at the moment that a group of Cubans refugees arrived to “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” I imagine that it was very emotional for the Cuban American journalist, a refugee himself, as well as for the Cuban refugees. Only Cubans know too well what is to leave under the oppressive regime of the Castro brothers.
 
To see more photographs of the events of March 2, 2012 in the Dry Tortugas, go here: zphotos' Photos | SmugMug, then click on the gallery called 12Cubanrefugees. Your comments are always welcome.


The group of Cuban refugees pose in the Dry Tortugas (Photo by Julio C. Zangroniz)
 
You can complain all you want about the US, but when you see what many Cubans risk to get away from the Castroit regime and to the US, it certainly makes you think about the freedom we have. My thoughts and prayers are with these people.
 
They have been adrift in this tiny raft for many days. The raft was making water and the engine has broken, and they have no drinking water left. One can only imagine what it must be like to be so desperate and attempt an escape in this tiny raft across the Florida Straits. No doubt they will be sent back to Cuba since they were rescue at sea. Hopefully they'll get lucky next time in their attempt to escape.
 
If cubans make it close to our shore and the coast card intercepts them before they touch land...they are returned to cuba...if they touch land...they stay..
 
This is the video of the rescue capture by the Scottsdale man:
Christmas Dreams of Cuban Rafters Crushed By Cruise Ship "Rescue"
 
Many people believe Cuban rafters have it easy because of the US police of wet foot, dry foot, which allow the Cuban escaping from Dr. Castro island and reach US soil to remain under refugee status. It is cruel to send them back to Cuba after they have risk dying to get to the US.
 
The Cuban rafters have faith in the US system, enough to risk their lives to get here. It is really sad that after so much that they have gone through that if they don’t reach US soil, they are sent back to the island of Dr. Castro, a hellhole place they want to escape from.
 
I think that the US police of dry foot, wet food should be modify to allow those who really want to come and become American citizens, to stop sending them back. Instead we protect others who only want a free ride to use the system to make money and go back to their country of origin.
 

Just imagine if those 50,000 had stayed home, formed a militia and fought to make their country a better place.
 
Prof. Peabody said:
Just imagine if those 50,000 had stayed home, formed a militia and fought to make their country a better place.
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In the book “Unvanquished: Cuba's Resistance to Fidel Castro”, Cuban-American historian Enrique Encinosa, provide irrefutable testimony of how hard the Cuban people have fought against the Castroit regime. These other book by Encinosa, "Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution", "Escambray: The Forgotten War" and "Cuba at War", will provide you with the information of how hard the Cuban people have fought for their freedom.
 
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This demonstrates the importance of digital video cameras to bring news like this by common folks that happen to be in the right place at the right time. It is incredible how people risk their live in order to seek a future.
 
According to the report “they were handed over to the Mexican authorities.” This is a double whammy, since they will be sent back to Dr. Castro’s island. May God have mercy on them.
 
The Castroit regime is in the list of nations that harbors and support international terrorism. The regime arrests, tortures, and murders those Cubans who pacifically dare to confront it. There isn’t a future for the communist system in Cuba. Basically all the Communist regimes arrested, tortured and murdered tens of millions of innocent men, women, and children and it was all for nothing. Practically all ended up in the trash heap of history, condemned for their countless crimes against humanity.
 

Obviously way too many ran like cowards instead of staying and fighting or the Castro's would be in the ground right now.
 
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