2 Cubans Dead In Botched Hijack

[dArKeR]

Cuba on Tuesday reported two boat hijackings — one quickly foiled as three hijackers apparently killed one another and another in which a craft with an undetermined number of people aboard was taken to Bahamian waters.

The incidents appeared to be the first significant attempts to hijack a boat or plane in Cuba since the April 11 execution of three men convicted of seizing a ferryboat in Havana Bay — a case that helped chill Cuba's relations with Europe.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/15/world/main563410.shtml

Why can America execute people whom they have no real evidence did anything wrong at Guantanamo Prison but Cuba can't execute people caught red-handed which their law clearly states what the punishment is?

The Bush/Cuban Crime Family is encouraging these hijackings.

http://www.geocities.com/darkerxdarker/index.html

[Mika]

1. Many Americans don't understand

Many Americans don't understand that there are over 20,000 legal visas available offered to Cubans by the US every year (more than any other country). The US interests section in Havana does the background search.


For those who do not qualify.. there is the US's Cuban Adjustment Act.


The US's Cuban Adjustment Act allows Cubans, who do not qualify (due to criminal background check) for a legal US immigration visa, to stay in the US as long as they get here, NO MATTER HOW THEY GET HERE OR WHAT THEIR CRIMINAL RECORD MIGHT BE.


Essentially, current US policy offers 20,000 legal visas to Cubans annually (btw, not all are applied for), and then allows UNLIMITED immigration to Cubans who get here on go-fast smugglers boats (@ $10,000 per head), or hijacked craft.

[dArKeR]

2. Can you post a link about these regulations?

My friends loves traveling in Cuba. He's a skirt chaser and having the time of his life. He says everyone is very friendly. Everyone has a home and medical. Work isn't as important as enjoying their lives. Nice beaches. No evidence of government brutality.
Sure some people want to leave just as I've seen people from Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore... who want to live in America. Something you don't see in the GOP Bush Miami Cuban Mafai reports; there's more Americans who want to live in Cuba today for the 'peaceful tranquil' place it is now under Castro.

http://www.geocities.com/darkerxdarker

[Mika]

4. A couple here

Just do a google search on Cuban + Migration or the "Cuban Adjustment Act", etc.

Two here,

http://www.immigration-usa.com/cuban_migration.html

http://www.state.gov/www/regions/wha/cuba/cuba_adjustment_act.html

[dArKeR]

5. Thanks

[Mika]

3. Cuba blames US policies

Cuba says U.S. to blame in boat hijackings
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/caribbean/sfl-acuba16jul16,0,592381.story?coll=sfla-news-caribbean

"People in Cuba think they will be treated as heroes here and it will take awhile for the message to get through," said University of Miami immigration law professor David Abraham. "There's always a risk involved, but the rewards for those who reach the U.S. are so easy and so substantial."

The reason that Cuban hijackers think they will be treated like heroes is because, in Miami, they are.

In Miami, proir to the recent US prosecutions, numerous hijackers and their families have been parade honorees and given awards and medals of 'honor' at "exile" ceremonies where US/Miami political figures attend and take stage. Then many are set up with jobs at "exile" owned businesses for local PR purposes, as well as paid for interviews for Radio & TV Marti broadcasts and Cubanet publications (a requirement for these local perks is that they must denounce Castro).

[Judi Lynn]

6. So they get rewarded additionally to the perks

offered by the Cuban Adjustment Act which are available to NO OTHER GROUP. Interesting.

As little as I have known about Cubans making their new lives in America, I have read about the two who survived the trip with Elian, who were both given jobs by local Cuban American companies immediately.

I think they would have been more loudly lauded had the man not been married still, and the couple not a biracial couple. I have read her Miami relatives weren't coping well with it.