They have been to Guantánamo to sing to desperate rafters called balseros, conducted prayer vigils when a little boy became a political pawn in Fidel Castro's script. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Prior to the 1995 Adjustment Act revision, the U.S. admitted Cubans rescued at sea, also known as balseros, and had seen a mass migration from the island totaling upward of
He shot in Cuba, in Guantanamo (where there were prison camps for "balseros" or boat people before prisoners from Afghanistan were sent there), and in the US, where life was not always sweet or free. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Unlucky balseros who launched into the Loop Current in summer 1994 wound up swirling helplessly in these eddies, never nearing Florida. ❋ Curtis C. Ebbesmeyer (2010)
In the early 1990s, thousands of desperate Cuban balseros cast themselves adrift on rafts, tires and any other makeshift craft that could float. ❋ Curtis C. Ebbesmeyer (2010)
He met with groups of balseros, or rafters, those who fled to the US by boat, but were subsequently returned to Cuba. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Ruth Anne, if it comes out well, I'll post some pictures of my Cuban shrimp creole on sauteed plantain hence the name, balseros, in honor of the rafters coming across the waters to freedom. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)
For years, they had gone out looking for balseros -- people on homemade rafts trying to escape from Cuba. ❋ Unknown (2008)
When they spotted a raft, the planes circled low, dropping small radios in waterproof wrapping so that the air crews could talk to the balseros and offer to call the U.S. ❋ Unknown (2008)
That sharply reduced the number of balseros needing help from Brothers to the Rescue, and it may have encouraged Basulto to pursue other activities. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In a trendy cafe on South Miami Beach last week, two Cuban intellectuals amiably debated the issue that is galvanizing the city -- what to do about the balseros. ❋ Unknown (2008)
While exile political leaders push for an ever-tougher line against Fidel Castro -- even though it means turning back their own countrymen -- many Cuban-Americans are being moved by conscience and compassion to extend a helping hand to the balseros. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Some of the balseros "don't realize that when [you] come to the United States ... you have to work really, really hard to be successful," said advertising saleswoman Carol Falla, 26. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The balseros (rafters) signal with anything they have -- mirrors flashing sunlight, smoke flares, shirts waving. ❋ Unknown (2008)
On Sunday, the Coast Guard refuted that common wisdom by forcibly repatriating a dozen balseros who were attempting to cross the Florida Straits in a green, 1951 Chevy truck made amphibious by a level of ingenuity America should be eager to import. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Cuba has been going through a crisis of which much has been said in Europe and in the world, the crisis of the balseros, the people who have left, who have fled from Cuba and who have moved a large section of international opinion. ❋ Unknown (1994)
The hardline exiles wanted to isolate Castro entirely and told Clinton, says Odio, "that we'd accept a transfer of the balseros to the US base at Guantánamo Bay if Clinton would stop all flights from Miami to Havana and prohibit remittances to Cuba". ❋ Ed Vulliamy (2010)
"Oh man, guy, look! Balseros coming [ashore]! Quick, [alert] [the coast] guard!" ❋ Arcanebus (2008)