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- noun A
refugee who travels fromCuba to America by sea
Etymologies
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From Spanish balsero
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Several other memoirs of life in revolutionary Cuba have appeared since 1994, a year that saw the Havana riot, the pathetic, deadly exodus on life-rafts and assorted floating contraptions that became known as the balsero (rafters) crisis, and the final submission of socialist goals to the pragmatic requirements of getting a full-throttle tourist economy underway.
Fidel in the Evening Guillermoprieto, Alma 1998
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