WORLD BRIEFING / CUBA
Seven Cubans who set out for the United States in a rickety plastic foam boat wound up instead in front of the U.S. mission to Cuba.
The would-be migrants drew gawkers, as well as the attention of Cuba’s coast guard, because their journey ended along the rocks lining Havana’s heavily traveled Malecon seafront boulevard near the U.S. Interests Section.
Coast guard craft surrounded the disabled little boat around midday, so the seven men jumped into the water and clambered out over the rocks. They were picked up by police.
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