Marines Rescue 15 Cuban Migrants Off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula David Adams - Reuters
go to original September 6, 2014

Mexican marines carry a dehydrated Cuban migrant on a stretcher after they were rescued off the coast of Yucatan (Reuters/SEMAR)

Two Cuban migrants died and as many as eight more are missing after a three-week odyssey at sea, according to relatives of 15 badly sunburned and dehydrated survivors of a boat rescued by the Mexican Navy this week.

The Cubans, who face possible deportation back to Cuba, are receiving treatment at an immigration facility in the city of Merida, in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.

The rustic, homemade boat carrying 25 people left Manzanillo in eastern Cuba on Aug. 7, Jose Caballero, the husband of one of the survivors, told Reuters on Friday in a telephone interview from Austin, Texas.

Caballero, who left Cuba by a similar route last December, said his wife, Mailin Perez, told him by phone from Mexico that the boat’s motor broke down after two days and the passengers rigged a makeshift sail.

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