Mexico Hunts Missing Aid Sailboats Bound for Cuba

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The U.S. embargo on Cuba is so crushing that volunteers are risking their lives loading sailboats with rice, beans, baby formula and medicine just to keep people alive. Two of those boats — the Friendship and Tigger Moth — are now missing in the Caribbean with nine crew members aboard. This is what happens when a blockade squeezes a nation so hard that ordinary people feel compelled to sail into open water to deliver basic supplies.