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 Balseros

View fullsize  A last farewell, as another group of some 35.000 balseros leave.
View fullsize  First night of the "balseros" crisis; a French colleague and I were the only ones to witness the events that night.
View fullsize  First night of the "balseros" crisis; a French colleague and I were the only ones to witness the events that night.
View fullsize  First night of the "balseros" crisis; a French colleague and I were the only ones to witness the events that night.
View fullsize  First night of the "balseros" crisis; a French colleague and I were the only ones to witness the events that night.
View fullsize  Getting the raft ready as the sun sets.
View fullsize  Many times I saw men that had come to watch the show suddenly decide to leave the country too.
View fullsize  Another family torn into pieces.
View fullsize  "Balseros", Cuba's boat people crisis. Some 35.000 left Cuba in 1994.
View fullsize  Not a raft, but already a boat. They probably made it to the Florida shores.
View fullsize  A last, fast kiss.
View fullsize  A young priests gives the blessings to two young men ready to leave.
View fullsize  Balseros leaving from Havana's Malecon waterfront.
View fullsize  For many years he has been wanting to try his luck in "America", and now it was time for him to go; our friend Tony waves goodbye.
View fullsize  A last hug before he leaves his wife.
View fullsize  Minutes ago the man with the blue-black T-Shirt had hugged his wife goodbye.
View fullsize  Balseros peparing a raft in the streets of Centro Habana.
View fullsize  The crisis started in Cojima but would soon spread to Old Havana.
View fullsize  Praying and hoping for the best before departure.
View fullsize  First heavy problems shortly after they left.
View fullsize  The most brutal experience was to see how people suffered as they seperated, a theme that i knew very well from East Germany.
View fullsize  Some 35.000 are said to have left the country.
View fullsize  The most sophisticated raft I had seen.
View fullsize  A big raft and lots of provisions, I am sure they made it.
View fullsize  The ones that stayed spent hours just watching their beloved ones fade into the horizon.
View fullsize  The raft they see disappear, will return the next morning.
View fullsize  This raft had left the shore the day before but came back to leave behind the women aboard as they had panicked during heavy weather last night.
View fullsize  She stood there with a note and a photo of her husband watching the raft with her love disappear.
View fullsize  While the rafts from the early days were basically just truck tubes, later there were more sophisticated rafts.
View fullsize  My "Balsero Crisis Lady", a young Cuban woman takes a break as waiting for the tide to be perfect for leaving.
View fullsize  Tha last day of the Balseros crisis. After seeing tens of thousands of refugees arriving at the shores of Florida, the US finally agreed on an immigration treaty with Cuba.