Diezmero residents caught the public eye two years ago when they sought to motor over to Florida in a 1951 flatbed Chevy truck kept afloat with oil drums and fitted with a propeller. They were intercepted and returned to Cuba.
When I was in the Coast Guard, we used to find people in all manner of craft attempting to get across from Cuba and Haiti. But I never saw anything like that.
"Their cinder-block and wooden houses are on streets that smell of sewers and uncollected garbage, and frequent power outages make the tropical heat hard to bear"
Sounds just like Florida...No wonder they want in.....
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