Migrants’ relatives call on president to free 33 Cubans

“The scene played out Thursday as it has for a decade in South Florida: Protesters calling on the president to set free Cuban migrants held by U.S. officials on the high seas, lawyers feverishly filing motions in Miami federal court, carnations tossed into turquoise waters amid prayers for divine intervention.

All the while the bodies of Isabel Menéndez Machado, 74, and Luisa Cardentey, 60, rest in a legal limbo here. Their relatives refuse to bury them until the 33 Cubans who traveled with the women can come ashore to attend the funeral.”

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