Cuban dissident drowns in attempt to reach island
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/04/06/1565990/cuban-dissident-drowns-in-attempt.html
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A Cuban dissident who came to Miami in 2005 but was blocked when he tried to return legally to the island has drowned during an attempt to sneak back into the island aboard a boat, friends said Tuesday.
Adrián Leiva had long demanded the Cuban government allow its people to leave and return as they wished, arguing at one point that migration was ``a dagger plunged into the heart of the Cuban nation.''
He told friends he was going to slip back into the island by boat on March 22, and his sister Eva recognized his body at a Havana morgue on Monday, said Miguel Saludes, a longtime friend in Cuba and Miami.
Leiva had returned to Cuba in 2008, but was expelled after his three-month permit expired, Saludes told El Nuevo Herald. He tried again last year, and was turned back at Miami International Airport.
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:wtf:
So, it turns out that it was the US that was preventing him from going to Cuba because he violated US rules regarding his US permit to visit Cuba (prior to Obama's new ruling, but still considered a violation of the existing rules at that time).
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Obviously, its Castro's fault!
:sarcasm: