Leaving Cuba: A Father And Son Risk Lives At Sea

Christine Armario, Dec. 26, 2014, AP

Their flimsy vessel built from scraps of metal, wood and inner tubes had failed repeatedly. Oil leaked. The propeller sputtered.

"I'm not going," Lastre had announced. "It seems we weren't meant to leave."

"Don't be a fool," shot back his stepfather, Antonio Cardenas. "After trying this hard you have to try again."

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