Relatives of Cuban rafters who disappeared in the last year do not lose hope of finding them, according to the testimony of several families contacted by journalist Mario Vallejo.
The journalist, based in South Florida, affirms that he is in a group chat with dozens of families of missing rafters and they continue the investigations and maintain the faith of seeing the migrants again.
"They left Cuba a year ago and they still have not appeared. Their families do not rest in the search and they have lived for that since the following hours when they launched themselves into the Strait of Florida, heading north" in rafts and small boats and did not know nothing more, says Vallejo inFacebook.
He says that among them is a mother who this Thursday wrote: "God is giving me strength so that they can reach us. They are those from Caibarién, Villa Clara, who left on September 23, 2022."
The reporter says that every day he reads messages like these from mothers, sisters, fathers, grandmothers and other relatives or friends from whom they left but never arrived.
"Love and hope go hand in hand. That chat is an example of how much faith human beings harbor in search of a sign, no matter how minimal, that feeds their longing. How much pain I feel when I see that there are people who talk to them of strange and confusing things that, although at first it gives them hope, then it depresses them, because they are false and make these mothers call, write, delve to the deepest depths and cling to the smallest of comments," she said.
He says that "you have to read that chat to get an idea of how much suffering there is behind every word, every question, every innocent reaction to any indication, no matter how small it may seem" of the mothers who have lost their children in the Cuban immigration crisis.
At the end of his message the reporter hopes that "the miracle happens."
"As difficult as it may seem, mothers see and sense much more than we do!! Bless them!! I am sure that your children, wherever they are, right now are feeling blessed and proud to have had mothers like those, who despite of time, circumstances and what for many is inevitable, keep hope as alive as the first day," he said.
Although news of the Cuban migration crisis, sightings of rafts in the Straits of Florida and disappearances at sea have become less frequent than a year ago, statistics show that this situation continues in full swing with thousands of monthly arrivals. to southern Florida by sea.
On September 12, it emerged that aCuban father who escaped from the island in August on a windsurf board is missing, his mother reported toCyberCuba.
In her testimony, the distraught woman told our editorial team that Grabiel Gómez Oma jumped into the sea from Guanabo, Havana, heading to the coast of Florida and since August 23 she has not known anything about his whereabouts.
The US Coast Guard (USCG) repatriated to Cuba on Tuesday32 immigrants who were detained in three precarious boats near the keys near Miami, and transferred another 15 to the Bahamas.
At least 12,762 Cubans entered the United States in August, according to figures revealed on Friday by the Department of Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
The report from that entity that updated the August figures indicates that at least 6,760 immigrants entered the country by land and 5,937 by sea.
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