Libertad

That's the word on the inner tube. That's the world the inner tube represents.
How desperate has to be a human being to put his hopes in an inner tube and leave the only life he has known?
This is suicide, by all accounts. That's the main achievement of the "revolution". A nation of happy people has been turned into a nation of people who happily takes a shot at life through a suicidal trip on flimsy vessels on the Straits of Death.
Did he make it?
If somebody has the courage to leave all he has known behind, to come to this country risking his only possession, his life and soul, in shark infested waters, there have to be a compelling reason to do it. It's not economics, it's politics. The name of that reason is fidel kagasstro.