King Fidel's Recovery Prompts New Exodus

despite what Cuba's official mouthpieces may say, the recovery of King Fidel is causing more and more Cubans to set out for the U.S.

while most Cubans had hoped for changes in the wake of King Fidel's ... well ... wake, those hopes have been dashed by the King's recovery.

facing more of the same, Cubans are taking to the high seas again:


After a lull following Fidel Castro's illness last year, Cubans once again are taking to homemade boats or powerful speedboats manned by smugglers on a trip to the United States that often includes a detour through Mexico.

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So far this fiscal year, 2,819 Cubans have made it ashore in Florida, compared with 3,076 in all of last year, said U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Zachary Mann.

The number of Cubans intercepted in the Florida Straits are still below -- but likely to exceed -- last year's 2,810, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

That was the highest number since the 1994 exodus when the Coast Guard picked up more than 35,000 people floating off Cuba in all kinds of rafts when Castro opened the doors briefly.

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of course, those Cubans must not have watched Michael Moore's Sicko, or they would know better than to flee a country with such wonderful health care.