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During the rafter crisis last summer, more than 20,000 Haitians and 30,000 Cubans were intercepted at sea and delivered to hastily erected camps in Guantanamo. Among the refugees were 321 unaccompanied Cuban children, all of whom have since have been paroled to the U.S. But of the 356 unaccompanied Haitian children who ended up at Gitmo, only 22 have been admitted to the U.S., because they needed medical attention or had a parent already in the States. Since the island has officially returned to democratic rule, immigration officials say, Haitians don't qualify for humanitarian parole. Some...
...regime. His tactical skills, his powers of endurance and the affection of many Cubans are intact. There is no organized opposition to him inside the country. His army and security forces are large and efficient. Despite spasms of discontent, like the riot last August that helped unleash the rafter exodus, there is nothing like a Tiananmen brewing. And unlike many similar leaders, he has surrounded himself not with cronies and coat holders but with the best and the brightest his country has to offer. He may be constrained by a terrible economy and his enduring faith in the failed ideology...
Gail teaches at a school for the deaf. She is a firm but good-humored mom. Her tolerance for the workaholic ways of her husband Tom (David Strathairn) is wearing thin, but she's laboring earnestly on the marriage. She is also an expert whitewater rafter, and has arranged a trip down a challenging, unnamed western river with Tom, their son Roarke (Joseph Mazzello) and the family dog (boy and dog are also estranged from Tom). The family that gets sprayed together stays together -- or so Gail hopes...
...suffocating in the cabin that two of our spotters are nodding off. Then, abruptly, the radio comes alive: "Stand by for a surprise!" yells a voice, that of another pilot in our six-plane squadron. Minutes tick by. Then the voice broadcasts welcome news: "We have a rafter!" Racing to join the others, we spot our quarry: 13 Cubans standing up in two makeshift rafts, waving, yelling, laughing, crying as we circle overhead. The Cessna swoops down to a mere 50 ft. above the waves. Domaniewicz shouts over the engines, telling me to open the cabin window and drop...