Not so. Moslem refugee boat crucifixes, yes. But not Catholic ones symbolizing Cubans fleeing the island of Communist paradise across from Florida. What a hypocrite is Raul Castro. In her book, Fidel and Raul My Brothers, Juanita Castro, who fled the country in 1964, lashed out against her Communist brothers: “I cannot longer remain indifferent to what is happening in my country,” she said. “My brothers Fidel and Raúl have made it an enormous prison surrounded by water. The people are nailed to a cross of torment imposed by international communism.”
NYTimes: Mr. Heredia is one of about 25,000 Cubans who arrived by land and sea in the United States without travel visas in the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30, according to government figures. He, like many others, is also an unexpected throwback to a time that experts thought had long passed: the era when Cubans boarded homemade vessels built from old car parts and inner tubes, hoping for calm seas and favorable winds. As the number of Cubans attempting the voyage nearly doubled in the past two years, the number of vessels unfit for the dangerous 90-mile crossing also climbed. More of this report here.
