Cuban migrants make landfall in Honduras
The Associated Press
Article Launched: 04/20/2008 01:28:20 PM PDT
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras—A group of 16 undo***ented Cuban migrants has
landed in Honduras after two weeks at sea, an immigration official said
Sunday.
Francisco Alvarado of Honduras' regional immigration office said the
nine men, four women and three children were in good health after
setting out on March 31 from the Cuban province of Manzanillo.
"One of the motors broke down and while we repaired it, we were
surrounded by sharks for a whole day," migrant Raymundo Legon Rivero
told local television.
Some of the migrants drank sea water after their drinking water ran out,
Legon Rivero said. They reached the island of Guanaja on April 14 and
were taken to mainland Honduras on Friday.
Cubans bound for the United States are increasingly traveling through
Mexico and Central America instead of trying to get past U.S. Coast
Guard patrols off Florida.
Most Cuban migrants who arrive in Honduras are granted 15- or 30-day
visas in Honduras and immediately leave for the U.S.
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