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Cuba's 'invisible' tragedy: US-bound migrants who disappear in the Caribbean

Cubans show pictures of their relatives who disappeared in January 2023 on a handmade migrant boat somewhere between Cuba and South Florida, in Cardenas province of Matanzas, Cuba, on November 30, 2024. [AFP]

In the early hours of January 3, 2023, 32 people climbed onto a makeshift raft off southern Cuba and set out across the Caribbean for Florida, 170 kilometres (100 miles) away.

They were never heard from again.

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