Posted on Wed, Jun. 18, 2008
The Associated Press
HAVANA --
Smugglers fleeing from Cuba's Coast Guard overturned a boat loaded with
U.S.-bound migrants to distract pursuers, killing a woman and an
11-year-old boy, Cuba reported Wednesday.
The Communist Party newspaper Granma said the deaths occurred Monday off
the northern coast of the central province of Villa Clara.
The smugglers, who were charging US$10,000 a head to take 20 people to
the United States, escaped in their speedboat after being surprised by
the Coast Guard, the newspaper said.
Granma blamed the deaths on "murderous" American immigration laws that
generally allow Cubans who can reach U.S. soil to stay. Cubans found at
sea by the U.S. Coast Guard are usually repatriated.
Killed in the smuggling attempt were Yudersi Rosabal Rodriguez, a woman
from the central city of Sagua la Grande, and 11-year-old Jorge Luis
Nunez Sanchez, from a rural community called La Sierra.
The boy's mother, Vivian Sanchez Cabrera, was also on the boat and
survived. She was described as "weeping inconsolably" for the loss of
her only child.
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