{"id":2042,"date":"2004-02-04T18:22:42","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T22:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/02\/04\/persistent-quest-for-freedom-award\/"},"modified":"2004-02-04T18:22:42","modified_gmt":"2004-02-04T22:22:42","slug":"persistent-quest-for-freedom-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/02\/04\/persistent-quest-for-freedom-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Persistent Quest for Freedom Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2532'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"537\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/carboat.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"359\"><\/p>\n<p>        MIAMI (AP) &#8211; Eleven Cubans trying to sail to Florida in a 1950s Buick<br \/>\n        converted into a tailfinned boat were intercepted at sea by the Coast<br \/>\n        Guard and will be sent back to their homeland, exile activists said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>        Marciel Basanta Lopez and Luis Grass Rodriguez, the two men who turned<br \/>\n        the classic car into a floating vessel, tried a similar stunt last summer<br \/>\n        and got caught: They set out for Florida in a 1951 Chevy pickup with<br \/>\n        pontoons made out of empty 55-gallon drums and a propeller that pushed<br \/>\n        it along at about 8 mph. (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/24#a387\">photo of the day July 24<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>        On Monday, the men set out again, with four other adults and five children,<br \/>\n        relatives said. The Coast Guard intercepted the group late Tuesday en<br \/>\n        route to the Florida Keys, picking them up off Marathon, about 90 miles<br \/>\n      southwest of Miami, activist Arturo Cobo said.<\/p>\n<p><i>If anyone deserves a green card (and pink slip) it&#8217;s these guys.<\/i>&nbsp; From<br \/>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.excite.com\/article\/20040204\/D80GMKB80.html\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (AP) &#8211; Eleven Cubans trying to sail to Florida in a 1950s Buick converted into a tailfinned boat were intercepted at sea by the Coast Guard and will be sent back to their homeland, exile activists said Wednesday. Marciel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/02\/04\/persistent-quest-for-freedom-award\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}