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July 26, 2003

Creative Cuban migrants (Jerry)

Some Cubans were so desperate to leave their socialist paradise that they turned their '51 Chevy flatbed into a boat. They were doing 8 MPH across the Florida Straits when they were halted by the U. S. Coast Guard, whereupon they were returned to Cuba and their vessel sunk.

Go ahead, smile at the pictures and shake your head in amazement as you read the Coast Guard quote. Those plucky Cubans! Gotta love 'em! Just remember that, even if they aren't punished for trying to leave the island, the only thing these guys have to look forward to upon their return is... more life in Cuba.

The Herald takes a light tone, focusing on the creativity of the migrants. Given the depressing reality, can you blame 'em?

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From where I sit, these folks were not only plucky and inventive, they demonstrated the qualities of good futurists.

Posted by Phil Bowermaster on July 26, 2003 at 8:13 PM


But the question that the media cover up, though, is how many Americans flee these shores to make the dangerous voyage to Cuba, where health insurance is free and the rich do not exploit the poor? You don't see THAT addressed in the media, do you? EH?

Posted by Tim the Michigander on July 27, 2003 at 12:04 AM


Necessity is the mother of invention.

Posted by Val Prieto on July 27, 2003 at 8:28 AM


I think that the messed-up part of the story is that the Cubans were sent back home without their truck. The coastguard sunk the truck. Now the Cubans are out a truck and it won't be that easy for them to come up with another.

Posted by Tony S. on July 27, 2003 at 11:15 AM


Lets have a "regime change" in Cuba. Castro is on the way outski anyway, the one of the last reminders of a failed socio-economic experiment. And your next Long Dong Kim 2! (Isn’t it interestingly how Communism, which presumes that humans are basically good and altruistic are back-assward hells, while Capitalism which balances individual greed, desire and hunger for power against that of ones neighbors, are relative utopias by comparison. That says a lot about the true nature of man.) Besides, who is going to stop us? "Lets roll?" That sounds like a rave slogan. I prefer, "Because we can." heh heh :^)

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