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BALSEROS Balseros Home | Synopsis

In August 1994, in a startling concession, Fidel Castro opened up Cuba's coastal borders, inviting citizens who wished to leave the country to do so. Some 50,000 people took him up on the offer, jamming onto dangerous makeshift rafts and setting sail for Miami. Some of the rafters - known as balseros - made it to America. Others perished. Still others were picked up by the Coast Guard at sea, and taken to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay.

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