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...told them, 'I am a carpenter, not a politician.'" said Dominguez last week after sailing to Florida with 16 others. A second refugee, Day Laborer Gabino Mendiola, 39, confirmed the story: "If you do not join the militia, you cannot get a job." Added Jose Aurelio Lechuga Villanueva, 53, a fisherman for 36 years: "A fisherman cannot live. I used to be able to sell fish freely. Now everything goes to the Agrarian Reform at their price. You have nothing left with which to eat." One haggard mother recently landed at Key West in a small sailboat with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: The New Exodus | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

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