Any info as to how Jesus voted? /sarcasm
I ask, what's wrong with this story?
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-46cubanshoot,0,4562765.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines
Cubans shoot 2, killing 1 in migrant smuggling attempt near Pinar del Rio
Associated Press
Posted April 6 2006, 10:12 AM EDT
HAVANA -- The Cuban Coast Guard shot two suspected migrant smugglers from the United States, killing one, when they and a third man refused orders to halt their speed boat as it neared the island, official media said Thursday.
The Communist Party daily Granma said the confrontation occurred early Wednesday morning near Cuba's southern coast in the western province of Pinar del Rio.
The Coast Guard official in charge ordered officers to open fire after the three-man crew aboard the 40-foot boat failed to stop as ordered and launched ``violent sudden attacks'' on a Coast Guard vessel, damaging the craft and almost causing it to overturn, the report said.
It said that two men aboard the U.S.-based boat were wounded by gunfire and taken to a local hospital, where one died Wednesday afternoon, the report said.
Cuban authorities said the identity of the dead man was not immediately known because he did not have any documents and the other two men were not cooperating.
The other two men carried U.S. passports identifying them as Rafael Mesa Farinas and Rosendo Salgado Castro. It was unclear which of those two was wounded, or how seriously.
The passports showed the men had recently visited the Mexican southeastern state of Quintana Roo, where Cuban authorities believe they had planned to take a boatload of illegal migrants.
Cuban authorities later temporarily took into custody 39 people they believe had been scheduled to leave the island on the speedboat: 20 men, 12 women and seven children.
After giving statements to authorities, most were later sent home. Several, however, remained in custody pending further questioning.
The speed boat, named the ``Tiburon Azul,'' is registered to an American man of Cuban origin named John Roberto and has traveled to Cuba numerous times on migrant smuggling trips in the past, many of them through Mexico, the report said.
``The events in the pre-dawn hours of yesterday in the waters south of Pinar del Rio confirm the irresponsible, criminal and aggressive character of United States policy toward Cuba, especial the deliberate use of the theme of migration against the Revolution,'' Granma said in the front page report.
It went on to criticize as ``cynical'' the Cuban Adjustment Act, a 1966 law that grants U.S. residency to most Cubans one year after reaching American soil. That privilege does not apply to apply to immigrants from most other nations.
Under current American policy, most would-be Cuban migrants the U.S. Coast Guard picks up at sea are returned to the island, but most who reach American soil are allowed to stay.
Mexico is among several routes migrant smugglers use to get Cuban migrants into the United States, and Quintana Roo, home to the Caribbean resorts of Cancun, Cozumel and Isla Mujeres, has become an increasingly popular transshipment point.
From there, the migrants travel to the U.S. border with Mexico, where they identify themselves as Cubans to American officials and are often allowed to stay.
I ask, what's wrong with this story?
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-46cubanshoot,0,4562765.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines
Cubans shoot 2, killing 1 in migrant smuggling attempt near Pinar del Rio
Associated Press
Posted April 6 2006, 10:12 AM EDT
HAVANA -- The Cuban Coast Guard shot two suspected migrant smugglers from the United States, killing one, when they and a third man refused orders to halt their speed boat as it neared the island, official media said Thursday.
The Communist Party daily Granma said the confrontation occurred early Wednesday morning near Cuba's southern coast in the western province of Pinar del Rio.
The Coast Guard official in charge ordered officers to open fire after the three-man crew aboard the 40-foot boat failed to stop as ordered and launched ``violent sudden attacks'' on a Coast Guard vessel, damaging the craft and almost causing it to overturn, the report said.
It said that two men aboard the U.S.-based boat were wounded by gunfire and taken to a local hospital, where one died Wednesday afternoon, the report said.
Cuban authorities said the identity of the dead man was not immediately known because he did not have any documents and the other two men were not cooperating.
The other two men carried U.S. passports identifying them as Rafael Mesa Farinas and Rosendo Salgado Castro. It was unclear which of those two was wounded, or how seriously.
The passports showed the men had recently visited the Mexican southeastern state of Quintana Roo, where Cuban authorities believe they had planned to take a boatload of illegal migrants.
Cuban authorities later temporarily took into custody 39 people they believe had been scheduled to leave the island on the speedboat: 20 men, 12 women and seven children.
After giving statements to authorities, most were later sent home. Several, however, remained in custody pending further questioning.
The speed boat, named the ``Tiburon Azul,'' is registered to an American man of Cuban origin named John Roberto and has traveled to Cuba numerous times on migrant smuggling trips in the past, many of them through Mexico, the report said.
``The events in the pre-dawn hours of yesterday in the waters south of Pinar del Rio confirm the irresponsible, criminal and aggressive character of United States policy toward Cuba, especial the deliberate use of the theme of migration against the Revolution,'' Granma said in the front page report.
It went on to criticize as ``cynical'' the Cuban Adjustment Act, a 1966 law that grants U.S. residency to most Cubans one year after reaching American soil. That privilege does not apply to apply to immigrants from most other nations.
Under current American policy, most would-be Cuban migrants the U.S. Coast Guard picks up at sea are returned to the island, but most who reach American soil are allowed to stay.
Mexico is among several routes migrant smugglers use to get Cuban migrants into the United States, and Quintana Roo, home to the Caribbean resorts of Cancun, Cozumel and Isla Mujeres, has become an increasingly popular transshipment point.
From there, the migrants travel to the U.S. border with Mexico, where they identify themselves as Cubans to American officials and are often allowed to stay.
Now read this (note, also from AP, check the time):
Report: Cuban coast guard kills migrant smuggler suspect
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/04/06/cuba.smuggling.ap/
Mfume endorsing Steele?