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Balseros is an account of seven Cuban refugees-and their families-who risked their lives to venture toward America's shores on homemade rafts. While Presdidents Bill Clinton and Fidel Castro argued over the closing of Cuba's coast in 1994, nearly 50,000 "balseros" (a slang term for Cuban rafters) set out towards Florida. Spanning seven years within the lives of these Cuban surviviors, Balseros intimately weaves the rafters unfurling odyssey with footage of their families's reaction. Streaming available through Kanopy and DirecTV as of 9/12/19

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