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...since the 1959 Cuban revolution has Florida's glittering gold coast experienced anything quite like it: almost daily landings, from Key Biscayne to Palm Beach, of rickety wooden boats, some with homemade sails and tree trunks for masts. All are packed, gunwale to gunwale, with Haitian refugees carrying their possessions on their backs and in small wicker baskets. Fleeing high unemployment, food shortages and political repression at home, they have made the dangerous 800-mile voyage across the open Caribbean in search of a better life...
...Bahamian crackdown greatly increased the stream of Haitian immigrants to Florida. A record 600 refugees landed in June, including five boatloads on a single day; another 300 arrived by mid-July, swelling the total since November to 1,400. In the comparable period a year earlier, the total was 344. Hundreds more may have died of hunger and thirst or drowned during the passage. Two weeks ago, for example, 23 Haitians died when their crowded boat capsized in choppy seas outside Freeport harbor. Says Truman Carr, an agent of the U.S. Border Patrol: "The boats are overloaded and there...
...Flood's dealings with the government of Haitian President for Life Jean-Claude Duvalier. During a visit to the island in 1973, Elko promised that Flood would increase U.S. aid. Within a month of Elko's return home, Congress approved $23.4 million in economic aid for Haiti, about 21/2 times as much as Haiti received during the previous year. In return, says Lucien Rigaud, a prominent Haitian businessman and former aide to Duvalier...
...waterway. The canal, he notes, was then bustling with wartime traffic, and the city of Colón flourished as one of the fleshpots of the Latin world. Today it is a depressed town. Reaching even further back, New Zealander Diederich remembers stories told of his wife's Haitian grandfather, who worked on the construction of the canal...
...Andre Tassy, 30, was accused of plotting against the Haitian government and imprisoned for 2½ years. After his release in 1974, he and his wife and 31 others fled in a leaky 14-ft. boat. First they landed in Cuba, where the craft was repaired. Then they pushed on to Florida. As soon as they had beached the boat, the men were jailed for illegal entry. Tassy was released on $500 bond and is now awaiting a court decision on his deportation. Unlike Cubans, most Haitians are not recognized as political refugees by the U.S. and are not permitted...