United States authorities detained 21 Cuban rafters who had to be rescued after they disembarked in the Marquesas Keys, a group of uninhabited islands located about 50 kilometers west of Key West. According to a statement shared by the head of the Miami sector of the US Border Patrol (USBP), Samuel Briggs II, the events … Read more
A cruise ship belonging to the international company Carnival Cruise Line, based in El Doral, Florida, rescued this weekend 27 Cuban rafters who were adrift at sea. According to the media ABC Action News, The cruise ship left Tampa bound for Roatán, Honduras, when it sighted the Cubans while they were signaling to be rescued. … Read more
The Cuban-American Dairo Alfonso Paes, one of the fishermen who sighted a group of rafters coming from the Island a few weeks ago near Key Westspoke about the experience he had when he found out that these had been returned to the Greater Antilles. According to a video shared on his account TikTok On April … Read more
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) returned 19 Cuban rafters who spent several days adrift before being intercepted near the coast of Florida. According to an official note from the Ministry of the Interior (Minint), the group left Cuba illegally and spent nine days adrift in the Straits of Florida before being sighted by US … Read more
Members of the United States Border Patrol (USBP), together with the US Coast Guard (USCG), rescued a group of 14 Cuban rafters who were stranded after making landfall in the National Park of Dry Tortugas, a series of islands west of Key West. According to an official statement, these rafters arrived in Florida on Friday, … Read more
The ‘Icon of the Seas’, the largest cruise ship in the world belonging to the Royal Caribbean company, rescued a group of Cuban rafters who were adrift during one of its most recent voyages. According to several publications shared by some passengers, the incident occurred last Saturday, March 2. According to these people, the boat … Read more
A group of almost 30 Cuban rafters, which arrived in the Florida Keys at the beginning of 2024, was released by the US authorities, and they are receiving accommodation in a church in Hialeah. According to the media Telemundo 51these Cubans belong to a Christian congregation, and spent five months building a rustic boat with … Read more
United States authorities reported the arrival of 20 Cuban rafters to the coast of Florida. This after having risked his life crossing the sea in search of better life opportunities abroad. According to an official statement shared by Samuel Briggs II, head of the US Border Patrol (USBP) in the Miami Sector, the rafters made … Read more
A group of 10 Cuban rafters who arrived by mistake in Jamaica due to bad weather were deported back to the Island on a commercial flight that took them to the province of Santiago de Cuba. According to the official media Granma, The group had the objective of reaching the Cayman Islands to request asylum, … Read more
A group of Cuban rafters were rescued by a luxury cruise ship from the Carnival company near the coast of Florida. The incident occurred on Saturday, February 24, when the boat spotted a rustic boat drifting near the coast of the city of Miami. Videos shared on social networks show that the group consists of … Read more