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
Others took a shorter but treacherous route. There are sharks, jellyfish, and storms can pop unexpectedly. Hundreds have died or gone missing. This is the story of three cubans who risked everything to leave the island for florida. In 2019 he was living in the country with his wife and daughter. It was the mecca of tourism for communist run cuba. Foryears, he had been Teaching Diving and watersports to tourists. With a strict embargo until the 19605 with a strict embargo until the 1960s brought money to cuba, around 600 million in 2019. For years it was supported by its commonest ally, the soviet union, 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 cuban regime was difficult. Growing up in santiago de cuba, 22 year old celimar learned this from a young age. Celimar s father was a dissident. That had repercussions for
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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