Two boats with almost 40 Cubans landed this Monday in Marquesas Keys, a group of uninhabited islands west of Key West, Florida, according to videos broadcast on Facebook by Loisel DeLeon Morales. “We arrived in the land of freedom with the favor of God,” said this man from Matanzas.
“Finally it’s my turn to sing the champion’s song,” De León wrote in the message in which he shared 10 recordings of the group that accompanied him on the 21-hour journey. “We fucking broke it.”
The young Cuban was heard saying that despite the fact that the sea did not look entirely favorable, it allowed them to navigate. “We’re going to succeed, damn it,” De León told the crew of a raft to which they adapted an engine that was powered by fuel that came from a plastic container. “Here we go, damn it, towards the land of freedom,” to conquer better living conditions, he added.
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Along the way they found another raft in which several Cubans were traveling, who, like De León and his companions, had embarked on the route to the American dream. “Look,” the man from Matanzas shouted, “there goes another raft, there goes an ‘aircraft carrier,'” with a cattle skull on the prow, which was transporting “the Vikings from San Antonio de los Baños,” he said.
The Border Patrol said Wednesday that these migrants were part of 80 Cubans who made four landings in Cayos Marquesas and were “taken into custody.” However, at least those who arrived with De León have already been released.
Some were able to reunite with their relatives. De León was supported by a relative who took him in a van, taking a tour of Palm Beach, the area where he was told Donald Trump, Thalía and some politicians have a house. An area in which the apartments, they told him, cost around 4,000 dollars a month.
A day earlier, the head of the Border Patrol in the Miami sector, Walter Slosar, indicated that in the last 24 hours 10 landings had been recorded at different points in Key West. “Since October 1, 2022, agents have responded to 32 migrant arrivals with more than 450 arrests,” he said.
On Monday, a family of 20 Cubans arrived in the United States aboard a speedboat from Cojímar. Professor V. Sorjes Martín gave testimony of the journey. The current situation in Cuba “with a tremendous amount of political problems,” he said, motivated this group to “run away.”
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