A partially burned raft with the Cuban police uniform arrived this Sunday, without occupants, to the sand of Miami Beach, the most emblematic beach in the state of Florida (USA), which caused surprise among the bathers who were in the area. .
The Cuban journalist and filmmaker Manuel Zayas, witness of the arrival of the raft to the beach, spread through their social networks photographs of the precarious boat, with signs of having suffered a major fire.
On the raft, which arrived in North Miami Beach at 89th and Collins streets, some objects could be distinguished, including shoes, food remains and an officer’s uniform of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR).
The practically intact uniform bore the number 39762 and was found next to a whistle.
Zayas indicated that no human remains could be seen on the raft that arrived at the popular Florida beach.
The arrival of the raft in Miami Beach coincides with the news that a total of 27 Cuban rafters, who arrived in Cayo Largo and Cayos Marquesas on Saturday, were detained by US authorities.
The US Coast Guard also disclosed that they were repatriated 203 Cubans on Saturday after intercepting 14 vessels between last Tuesday and Thursday, off the Florida Keys. The rafters joined the 106 returnees on Friday, which adds up to more than 300 Cubans returned to the Island in just two days. “In 2016, the ‘wet foot/dry foot’ policy was eliminated,” insist the coastguards in their networks, which, once again, ask not to jump into the sea.
The Coast Guard has detained 4,440 Cubans on the Florida coast since October 1, 2021.
Cuba is experiencing an unprecedented migratory exodus, with figures that exceed, according to the Center for Democracy and Development in the Americas, the Mariel crisis of 1980 and the Balseros of 1994. So far this fiscal year, the US authorities They have intercepted almost 178,000 Cubans.
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