Article: COLUMN: Cuban child suffers while adults argue

Mark Passwaters
University Wire
12-03-1999
(The Battalion) (U-WIRE) COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- For four decades, Cubans in the United States fought to free their nation from Fidel Castro.

This conflict has seen many low points, including the Mariel boatlift in 1980 and the shooting down of two aircraft rented by Cuban exiles which skirted Cuba's airspace.

The lowest point in this 40-year struggle may have come this week when a boat carrying 10 Cuban refugees sank off the coast of Florida.

Only three of the boat's 10 passengers survived the accident.

One of the survivors was a 5-year-old boy who clung to an inner tube for two days until he was picked up near Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

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