Stars align for Cuban migrants as record numbers seek better life in US
by Ed Augustin in Havana from World news | The Guardian on (#608ZN)
The journey to America, often via Nicaragua, has become more viable - and many are taking their chances at the border
One morning last spring, 22-year-old Ernesto Hernandez set out from the outskirts of Havana on a rickety boat hoping to cross the Florida Straits. The plan was to leave behind a dilapidating communist-ruled island in which he saw no future, and sail into an American dream.
Nobody has heard from him, or the other six people onboard, since.
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