U.S. Detains Boat Leading Cuba Protest

Cuban exiles marked the 1994 sinking of a tugboat that killed 41 Cubans but were without their leader, whose vessel was confiscated by U.S. authorities after he vowed to enter Cuba’s waters. Ramon Saul Sanchez, head of the group Democracy Movement, headed toward Cuba about midnight Saturday when U.S. Marshals and Coast Guard officials ordered him off his boat. The rest of the flotilla made it to its destination in the waters off Cuba and held a ceremony as Cuban naval gunboats floated at a distance. The flotilla then returned without incident. On July 13, 1994, Cuban authorities sank the boat carrying about 70 people attempting to flee the island.