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More Than 46,000 Cubans Have Arrived in the US by Land in Five Months, More Than in the 1994 Rafter Crisis

EFE (via 14ymedio), Miami, 6 April 2022 —  More than 46,000 Cubans arrived by land in the US in the five months from October 2021 to the end of February 2022, a figure higher than the 35,000 of the 1994 Rafters Crisis — which lasted five months — according to a report published this Tuesday by … Continue reading “More Than 46,000 Cubans Have Arrived in the US by Land in Five Months, More Than in the 1994 Rafter Crisis”

Fundraising Campaign For A Film About The Rafter Crisis / 14ymedio

14ymedio, Havana, 5 November 2015 — “From my house it all seemed like a strange ritual. Now the memories are being reconstructed as if they had been buried, the raft, loaded on the backs of people like a coffin,” is how Armando Capó describes the Rafter Crisis of 1994. The young director has launched a … Continue reading “Fundraising Campaign For A Film About The Rafter Crisis / 14ymedio”

ONE OF THE MANY… THE RAFTER CRISIS / Mario Barroso

…and the sea is now no more. Revelations 21:1 The response to the material nightmare that was buried in the spiritual collapse and in large measure the political and ideological collapse, was the mass escape at the risk of any mishap and even death. The sea was open defiance, the horizon was the choice of … Continue reading “ONE OF THE MANY… THE RAFTER CRISIS / Mario Barroso”

A Former Officer of the Armed Forces Was Among the 41 Rafters Returned to Cuba by the United States

Roxanna Pérez, 27 years old and a first lieutenant at the time of her resignation, is detained in the prison at 100 and Aldabó 14ymedio, Havana, 24 August 2024 — A former officer of the Cuban Armed Forces, Roxanna Pérez Rodríguez, is part of the group of 41 rafters intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard … Continue reading “A Former Officer of the Armed Forces Was Among the 41 Rafters Returned to Cuba by the United States”

Eight Cuban Rafters Who Were Shipwrecked After an Illegal Exit From Pinar Del Río Are Still Missing

14ymedio, Havana, August 7, 2024 — Amaury Miguel Suárez Torres and his stepfather were the only survivors of the shipwreck of a raft in which, along with nine other Cubans, they sailed on July 14 from La Coloma beach, in Pinar del Río, heading to the United States. Rescued by the Cuban authorities, both have … Continue reading “Eight Cuban Rafters Who Were Shipwrecked After an Illegal Exit From Pinar Del Río Are Still Missing”

Cuba Receives 32 Rafters Returned by the United States for a Total of 899 From Several Countries in 2024

The United States estimates that if the pace is maintained, by the end of the fiscal year some 245,000 Cubans will have entered. EFE (via 14ymedio), Havana, August 1, 2024 — Cuba received this Wednesday 32 irregular migrants returned by the United States Coast Guard Service (USCG), which now totals 899 deported to the Island … Continue reading “Cuba Receives 32 Rafters Returned by the United States for a Total of 899 From Several Countries in 2024”

Cuba Receives 45 Rafters Returned by the United States, Bringing the Total to 5,210 From Several Countries

EFE/14ymedio, Havana, 23 December 2023 –The U.S. Coast Guard Service (USCG) returned 45 Cuban rafters this Friday along with 5,210 irregular migrants deported to the Island from several countries in the region so far this year, according to official media. This group includes 39 men and six women who left illegally from the province of … Continue reading “Cuba Receives 45 Rafters Returned by the United States, Bringing the Total to 5,210 From Several Countries”

Three Coyotes Who Demanded $15,000 From Relatives of Cuban Rafters Are Arrested In Order To Free Them

14ymedio/EFE, Havana, 19 September 2022 — Didier Pérez Pérez, Lester Leyniel Soca Díaz and Yoandy Alonso, arrested last Thursday, are accused of belonging to a human trafficking network that was transporting Cubans by sea to Monroe County, Florida (USA), where they were kept kidnapped in a house in Hialeah, until their relatives paid $15,000. A … Continue reading “Three Coyotes Who Demanded $15,000 From Relatives of Cuban Rafters Are Arrested In Order To Free Them”

Mexican Authorities Rescue 11 Cuban Rafters Who Were Adrift in the Caribbean

14ymedio, Ángel Salinas, Mexico, 8 September 2022 — On Wednesday, the Mexican Coast Guard intercepted a rustic boat with 11 Cubans on their way to Isla Mujeres, a Mexican beach in the Caribbean Sea that has been identified by the authorities as one of the escape routes in use by the rafters. According to the … Continue reading “Mexican Authorities Rescue 11 Cuban Rafters Who Were Adrift in the Caribbean”

With Signs of ‘Freedom’ and ‘Christ, My Guide’, 108 Cuban Rafters Arrive in Florida in Two Days

14ymedio, Havana, 5 August 2022 — The exodus of Cuban rafters to the United States seems to have no limits. In just two days, on August 3 and 4, 108 people from the island made landfall in the Florida keys. The Border Patrol recorded the 12 boats in which the Cubans arrived, most of them … Continue reading “With Signs of ‘Freedom’ and ‘Christ, My Guide’, 108 Cuban Rafters Arrive in Florida in Two Days”

The Endless Drama of the Cuban Rafters, Where Are the Causes?

Miriam Celaya, Cubanet, 8 June 2021 —  On January 12th, 2017, when Barack Obama, the then outgoing president, repealed the dry feet/wet feet policy that had been in force since 1995 — a result of immigration agreements between the US and Cuba after the Balseros Crisis (1994) — Cuban authorities considered that decision as “an … Continue reading “The Endless Drama of the Cuban Rafters, Where Are the Causes?”

Five Cuban Rafters Escape the Police on Reaching the Beach in Miami

14ymedio, Havana, 20 March 2019 — A group of Cuban rafters arrived on the coast of Florida at Sunny Isles on Wednesday, according to a statement from the Coast Guard. At least five rafters managed to escape the authorities as the abandoned the precarious boat which brought them to the U.S. coast. A witness to … Continue reading “Five Cuban Rafters Escape the Police on Reaching the Beach in Miami”

Tomas Regalado, “Washington Refuses To Recognize That There Is A Migration Crisis” / 14ymedio, Mario Penton

14ymedio, Mario J. Penton, Miami, 3 February 2016 — Miami Mayor Tomas Pedro Regalado (born Havana, 1947), says that his is not prepared to cope with the surge of Cuban rafters who come daily to the coast of Florida. He came to the United States as a teenager and was a journalist before winning election in 2009. … Continue reading “Tomas Regalado, “Washington Refuses To Recognize That There Is A Migration Crisis” / 14ymedio, Mario Penton”

Declaration on the Cuban Migrant Crisis / Forum for Rights and Freedoms

Forum for Rights and Freedoms, 23 November 2015 — In recent weeks we have observed, with deep concern, the development of a new migration crisis. The human drama that thousands of Cubans are experiencing already affects the entire Central American region, the Caribbean, and especially Costa Rica, a nation that has received migrants with great solidarity, … Continue reading “Declaration on the Cuban Migrant Crisis / Forum for Rights and Freedoms”

Do You Recognize the Face of This Rafter? / 14ymedio

The photographer Willy Castellanos fought so that the faces of the more than 30,000 rafters who fled Cuba in the summer of 1994 would not be forgotten. The Exodus Project, by the Aluna Art Foundation, in which the Polish documentary film maker Marian Marskinsky is also involved, attempts to once again give names to the … Continue reading “Do You Recognize the Face of This Rafter? / 14ymedio”