Castro's Revenge?

February 21, 2006 – 08:41
Castro's Revenge?
Unconfirmed reports: Cuba will inundate Bahamas with immigrants if
dentists sent to US.

There are unconfirmed reports that the Bahamas government has been
warned that if its sends the two Cuban dentists, now being held at the
Carmichael Road Detention Centre, to the US, Cuba will, in retaliation,
inundate the Bahamas with hundreds of Cuban immigrants.

Cuba, because of its need for dentists, wants the two men returned to
Havana.

When the two dentists were picked up in waters off Elbow Cay, their
"lottery US visas" had expired two weeks previously and as such they
were not allowed to continue their journey to the US.

Florida, which has a substantial Cuban/ American population, wants the
dentists released to US authorities. However, the Cuban government wants
the dentists returned.

It is claimed that Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell was in Cuba in
an attempt to bring some calm to the issue.

Source: The Tribune
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