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SINKING OF THE TUGBOAT "MARCH 13
The Tugboat March 13 was a small Cuban boat, whose sinking at dawn on July 13, 1994, caused the death of 37 people trying to leave the country, of which 10 were children
Four boats equipped with pressurized water hoses rammed the tugboat 7 miles from Havana Bay.
According to testimonies of the survivors (31 people), the crew of the Polargo 2 and Polargo 5 tugboats intentionally rammed to March 13, and denied aid to the people who were in the water. For more than a week and in spite of the insistent denunciations in the international media, the Cuban media kept silence about the facts.
On August 5 of that same year, Fidel Castro described as "truly patriotic effort" the actions of the people involved.
To date, the Cuban government claims that the incident was an accident and has not tried or condemned any of the participants in this massacre.
Twenty years after the events, we spoke with Maria Victoria García, survivor of the collapse and with her father; Jorge A. Garcia Más, who lost 14 family members in the event.
They told us what happened that early morning and their subsequent struggle for justice to be done with the innocent victims who lost their lives two decades ago at the hands of the Castro government.