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[dipsydoodle]

is reference to :

Cuba last applied the death penalty in 2003 when three people were executed by firing squad for seizing a boat with the intent of fleeing to Miami.

For the general benefit of anyone not familiar with that particular episode :

A group of men armed with at least one pistol and several knives seized the ferry in Havana Bay early on April 2 and set sail for the United States about 50 hostages on board.

Later that day, the ferry ran out of fuel in the high seas of the Florida Straits and officers on the two Cuban Coast Guard patrol boats that chased them there tried to persuade the hijackers to return to the island.

The hijackers allegedly threatened to throw passengers from the boxy, flat-bottomed boat into the pitched waves but after much negotiation agreed to let the ferry be towed the 30 miles back to Cuba's Mariel port for refueling.

After the boat was docked in Mariel, west of Havana, Cuban authorities eventually gained control of the ferry. The suspects were arrested after a quick-thinking French woman jumped into the water to confuse her captors.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20030412/ai_n11386342/

Some of that Miami financed bunch of charlatons, The Ladies in White, are the mothers of those executed by firing squad. Being hung, drawn and quartered might have been more appropriate.