Word: ventacourt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Angered by the death of a policeman in a refugee hijacking in early August, Castro threatened to open the ports and unleash the population. "Castro appeared on national television and said military police would no longer patrol the waterfront," explained Eugenia Ventacourt, 44, a former executive secretary from Havana. Like hundreds of others, she crept down to the coast to see whether police were still patrolling. Before dawn on Sunday she and 10 others slipped away from a beach east of Havana. They were spotted by a Cuban coastal patrol boat 28 miles from the island, far beyond the coastal...
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