Flight to Freedom

L. Jon Wertheim

November 30, 1998

In a 20-foot boat like the one below, Romero and his wife (opposite), El Duque and five other refugees:1. left Cuba for Anguilla Cay to meet Ramis's boat (A), which took on water and never showed;2. were picked up by the U.S. Coast Guard and ferried to waters off Havana, after four days stranded on Anguilla Cay;3. took another Coast Guard ship to Bimini, where bad weather prevented docking;4. proceeded to Freeport;5. were flown to a detention camp in Nassau;6. jetted to Costa Rica.