(EFE).- The US Coast Guard announced this Monday that it has suspended the search for two Cubans who, according to their information, left Cuba last Tuesday aboard a motorized surfboard in the direction of the Florida Keys.
In a message on Twitter it is only said that the coastguard suspends the operation waiting for new information.
Last Saturday, the Coast Guard had published a message on the same social network reporting the search for two Cuban men aboard a motorized surfboard inserted in a metal structure that extends the surface over the water like a pontoon. .
The message included a photograph of the type of board they would have used to leave the Island and asked the public who had seen a similar boat in the Keys area to inform the Coast Guard.
Last Wednesday, the Coast Guard rescued a Cuban diving instructor in waters near the Keys. who crossed the Straits of Florida on a windsurf board and wearing only a life jacket with a GPS and cell phones.
Rodríguez confirmed to Telemundo this Sunday that López has already left the hospital and that the immigration authorities will allow him to remain in US territory to receive medical care.
Elián López, who according to his family jumped into the sea to receive medical care in the US after suffering from colon cancer, was rescued approximately 15 miles south of Islamorada Key and taken to a hospital.
“He requires urgent medication, being one of the reasons why he desperately risked his life,” Dunia Rodríguez, his cousin, wrote in a petition on Change.org.
Rodríguez confirmed to Telemundo this Sunday that López has already left the hospital and that the immigration authorities will allow him to remain in US territory to receive medical attention.
López recounted in an interview with Univisión that he had a bumpy journey due to rough seas and that when the sun began to go down on the second day, he gave up and sent a message to two friends in Miami who were aware of his trip, in the asking them to rescue him, which was south of Islamorada.
“Until a great friend told me: ‘Don’t wear yourself out anymore. Hold on, we’re coming for you,'” he added. The Coast Guard rescued him just at dusk on March 23.
In the fiscal year that began on October 1, 2021, more than a thousand Cubans have been intercepted in US waters and, in most cases, have been deported to Cuba.
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