The Boston Globe's Invisible Ink: Haiti
Seems to be a pattern.
"70 Haitians missing after boat capsizes" by Associated Press | July 29, 2009
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos - The US Coast Guard used boats, airplanes, and a helicopter to search the warm, shallow waters off the Turks and Caicos Islands yesterday for some 70 Haitians believed missing after their overloaded sailboat capsized. Rescuers pulled 113 survivors from reefs, and police recovered 15 bodies.
An estimated 200 people were aboard the boat when it capsized, said a Coast Guard spokeswoman in Miami. The Haitians had been at sea for three days when the migrants spotted a police vessel and accidentally steered the boat onto a reef as they tried to hide, survivor Alces Julien said. But Deputy Police Commissioner Hubert Hughes said police were not pursuing the migrant vessel and were involved only as rescuers. Five survivors were found on West Caicos after apparently swimming ashore, Hughes said.
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Globe follow-up:
Yeah, who cares about destitute black people fleeing their homelands because of US corporate policies and coups?
Oh, I stand corrected: Boston doctors help 2d Haitian boy with rare deformity
