Cubans missing in 'invisible' shipwrecks on route to US leave painful void at home
By Dave Sherwood
PALMA SOLA, Cuba (Reuters) -Every day, Cuban mother Mayra Ruiz wakes up wondering if today might be the day she hears from her only son, Maiquel Gonzalez.
Gonzalez disappeared without a trace in December 2022 alongside 28 friends and family who fled for Florida aboard a homemade boat. They were frantic to escape the crisis-racked Caribb
ean island, amid signs the United States was about to tighten immigration rules.