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   THE  CUBAN REFUGEES OR BALSEROS   
      
    Taking Southern Route to the U.S.   
      
      
   Compiled by the DiversityInc staff   
      
   August 12, 2005   
   Analysis of today's diversity news from The Economist, the Christian Science   
   Monitor, The Boston Globe, PopMatters, National Public Radio and more:   
      
   More Cubans are attempting to reach the United States by taking a dangerous   
   500-mile journey in the open seas to Central America because of stepped-up   
   U.S. Coast Guard patrols that are catching and repatriating Cubans.   
      
   The Boston Globe reports that with rising prices, meager salaries and   
   dwindling hope, Cubans are finding other ways to flee their homeland.   
   Because of the "wet foot-dry foot" policy, Cubans who make it to the U.S.   
   undetected generally are permitted to stay but more Cubans are heading to   
   Honduras, which does not repatriate Cuban refugees.   
      
   But Cubans attempting to go south in homemade boats and rafts must remember   
   that they might face hurricanes, sharks and shipwrecks, and if they are   
   blown off course to the Cayman Islands or Belize, they can be sent back to   
   Cuba.   
      
   Nelsy Rodriguez Tamayo, a 45-year-old nurse who earns the equivalent of $13   
   a month-high by local standards-lives "from one plate of food to another"   
   without enough money for soap, shampoo and detergent, which are sold at   
   U.S.-dollar prices. Even her 11-year-old daughter encouraged her to flee,   
   saying, "Get out of this situation; don't be a coward." But when she tried   
   to escape in March, she was captured and taken to a municipal police station   
   where they interrogated her overnight. She says that since then, she feels   
   she is being watched. "We want to be spiritually free, to express   
   ourselves," she says.   
      
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