Sergio Lastres, 49, poses at an exhibition of his work based on the 1994 Cuban raft exodus. Lastres and his wife were among 15 migrants rescued when their raft filled with water in 1994.

In Cuba, few fishing boats exist and with strict ... The vessels are named corchos, which translates to cork in English, are makeshift rafts have become a part of the capital’s seascape.

A man on a makeshift "corcho" raft prepares to fish at dawn in Cojimar, east of Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. COJIMAR, Cuba — From a distance, they look like tiny white dots floating ...

In a message posted in both English and Spanish to the 59-year-old Grammy winner’s Instagram page, Estefan shared a photo of a family of Cuban refugees on a life raft. Born Gloria Fajardo in ...

Embarrassed, the Cuban government called the refugees escoria ... aboard every conceivable thing -- truck tires, wooden rafts, anything that would float. As they left Cuban shores by the ...

so Doctors Without Borders and Greenpeace joined forces in order to save sinking refugee rafts. Story and editing by Adam Banicki More from Politics More than 100 refugees have died at sea since ...

From a distance, they look like tiny white dots floating on the sea. But get closer, and you’ll see people sitting on polyfoam rectangles. They are fishermen floating on makeshift rafts that ...