The U.S. Coast Guard rescuing Cuban refugees, August 1994(Doug Collier)

Uncovering the truth behind a Cuban atrocity

There are thousands of people alive today thanks to the actions of a small group of amateur pilots who operated out of South Florida in the early 1990s to save Cuban refugees. There are also four people who took to the skies one afternoon in February 1996 and were murdered by the Castro regime.

Three Cessna 337s took off from Opa Locka Airport near Miami on the afternoon of February 24, 1996, carrying seven people -- three pilots and four passengers. José Basulto, a Bay of Pigs veteran who had dedicated his life to fighting the Castro regime, piloted one plane, ...

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