From nicaragua, celimar had travelled across honduras and guatemala and then, crossed into mexico, evading the migration police. In mexico, celimar was hidden in a safe house controlled by the cartels. After windsurfing for nearly two days, elian was drifting closer to florida but he had pushed his body to its limits. Elian was rescued just after sunset. He received Urgent Medical care. After three days, alejandro thought he could see lights on the horizon. As the sun rose, he realised it was a hotel. After 13 days on the road, celimar was getting close to the us border. But there was one final challenge the notorious rio bravo. Because of the strong currents, many migrants have died on this crossing, and celimar was trying to cross in winter. At the start of 2023, following a record influx of migrants, the Us Government took radical action. In texas, troops were deployed to the mexican border. And a new Parole Programme was introduced. Cubans who entered the us illegally would not be
Smugglers, on dangerous journeys across Central America. Others took a shorter but treacherous route. The nearest point to cuba is about 70 miles. The South Florida Straits can turn deadly very quickly. There are sharks, there are jellyfish, storms can pop up unexpectedly. Hundreds have died or gone missing. This is the story of three cubans who risked everything to leave their island for florida. Ola. In 2019, elian was living in varadero with his wife and daughter. It was the maker of tourism for communist run cuba. For years he had been Teaching Diving and water sports to tourists. With a strict trading embargo imposed by the usa since the 1960s, tourism brought a vital source of foreign currency to cuba, around 12 Billion Us Dollars in 2019. For 30 years cuba was supported by its communist allies, the soviet union. But when the Socialist Bloc collapsed in the 1990s, cubans faced a daily struggle to survive. Elian had recovered from bowel cancer, but after surgery he could not sourc
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Others took a shorter, but treacherous, route. The nearest point to cuba is about 70 miles. The South Florida Straits can turn deadly very quickly. There are sharks, there are jellyfish, storms can pop up unexpectedly. Hundreds have died or gone missing. This is the story of three cubans who risked everything to leave their island for florida. In 2019, elian was living in varadero with his wife and daughter. It was the mecca of tourism for communist run cuba. For years, he had been Teaching Diving and water sports to tourists. With a strict trading embargo imposed by the usa since the 1960s, tourism brought a vital source of foreign currency to cuba, around 12 Billion Us Dollars in 2019. For 30 years, cuba was supported by its communist allies, the soviet union. But when the Socialist Bloc collapsed in the 1990s, cubans faced a daily struggle to survive. Elian had recovered from bowel cancer, but after surgery, he could not source enough colostomy bags. But complaining against the cuba