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Cuban migrants drank own blood, urine, adrift at sea for 23 days
http://news.yahoo.com/cuban-migrants-drank-own-blood-urine-adrift-sea-143835865.htmlMIAMI (Reuters) - A group of Cuban migrants drank their own urine and blood after the engine of their homemade boat failed, leaving them adrift in the Caribbean for three weeks without food or water, according to survivors who reached the United States this week.
"I'm happy I made it, alive, but it was something no-one should have to go through," said Alain Izquierdo, a Havana butcher, and one of 15 survivors of the 32 passengers.
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Cubans seeking to flee the communist-run island are heading in increasing numbers by sea to Central America and then making a long journey overland to reach the United States.
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After Honduras' leftist president Manuel Zelaya, an ally of Cuba, was toppled in 2009 and replaced by a conservative, the longer western route became popular, a trip of about 675 miles, via the Cayman Islands.
Honduran authorities give Cuban migrants temporary visas allowing them to head north for the United States.