Uptick In Cuban Migrants Making Dangerous Journey Across The Florida Straits

By Hank Tester, CBS Miami

June 4, 2021

Every year since 1960 as the waters calm over the summer, Cuban migrants take to the sea for a dangerous journey across the Florida Straits in an effort to escape the oppressive Castro regime and its failure of a socialist economy.

In recent months there has been a noticeable uptick in those seeking the freedom of America.

“I should have said to you when you called for this interview, ‘Hey Hank, why don’t you get the interview we did 20 years ago in Key West and just replay it because that’s exactly the same thing, unfortunately,” Ramon Saul Sanchez, leader of the Democracy Movement and a prominent member of the Cuban exile community, told CBS4’s Hank Tester.

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