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2019-04-15 Caribbean-Latin America
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Coast Guard rescues 23 people escaping Castro's communist utopia
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 [NYP] NEW ORLEANS ‐ The US Coast Guard said it worked with a cruise ship to rescue 23 people adrift for days in the Gulf of Mexico.
Obama descends from podium to greet fellow traveler Raúl Castro at the Mandela Memorial service 5 December 2013, in Johannesburg, SA.
The Coast Guard issued a statement Sunday saying 22 Cubans started traveling on a wooden boat from Cuba to Mexico before losing power and drifting for three days. A Cuban-Mexican man took them aboard his sports fishing boat, but then its engines malfunctioned and the group drifted three more days.
The Coast Guard said it was contacted early Sunday by a brother of one of the Cubans. In addition to launching its own effort to find the disabled fishing boat, the Coast Guard alerted the Carnival Fantasy.
The cruise ship took the 23 people aboard within hours, about 130 nautical miles off Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.
The statement said two of the people rescued had minor medical issues and were treated by medical staff on the cruise ship. It added that the 23 people would be transferred Tuesday to US Customs and Border Protection and Coast Guard Investigative Services in Mobile, Alabama. 
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