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Archive - Los Balseros 

A. Abbas 

August 1994: The fourth wave of Cuban immigration to US sees waves of Balseros or Rafters attempt to sail to Florida on a range of homemade rafts. 

Abbas 1994

CUBA. 1994. Many of the rafts built by Cubans trying to cross... 

Abbas 1994

CUBA. 1994. Determined Cubas launch a rigged raft, hoping tto... 

Abbas 1994

CUBA. 1994. Many Cubans are waiting and worrying for space on... 

Abbas 1994

CUBA. 1994. Anxious Cubans on the beach as raft departures for... 

Abbas 1994

CUBA. Havana. 1994. Cubans on the beach, hoping to get on a raft... 

Abbas 1994

CUBA. 1994. The jury-rigged raft scarcely seems seaworth enough... 

Abbas 1994

CUBA. 1994. Children play in a Cuban lagoon, where rafts wait... 

Abbas 1994

CUBA. 1994. Would be Cuban refugees test the sail of a makeshift... 

Abbas 1994

CUBA. Havana. 1994. Japanese Television on COJIMAR beach from... 

Abbas 1994

CUBA. 1994. Weathered boards, empty fuel drums and thick cloth... 

Abbas 1994

CUBA. Hvana. 1994. A "balsero" about to leave the island. 

Abbas 1994

CUBA. Havana. 1994. Press photographers record "balseros" leaving... 

Abbas 1994

CUBA. 1994. Many Cubans are waiting and worrying - for space... 

Abbas 1994

CUBA. Havana. 1994. Couple sitting on the canon of a rusted tank,... 

Abbas 1994

CUBA. 1994. Passengers perched on an impossibly small raft leave... 

Abbas 1994

CUBA. 1994. A few inner tubes and some boards are enough to build... 

Abbas 1994

CUBA. Guyaba. 1994. A tropical storm hits "balseros" about to... 

Abbas 1994

CUBA. Havana. 1994. Cubans supplement their meagre rations with... 

Abbas 1994

CUBA. Havana. 1994. Cubans supplement their meagre rations with... 
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