Brothers to the Rescue

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Brothers to the Rescue (Spanish: Hermanos al Rescate) is an American activist nonprofit organization based in Miami, Florida, headed by José Basulto, who testified that he had been a CIA operative. Formed by Cuban exiles, the group is widely known for its opposition to the Cuban government and its former leader Fidel Castro. The group describes itself as a humanitarian organization aiming to assist and rescue raft refugees emigrating from Cuba and to "support the efforts of the Cuban people to free themselves from dictatorship through the use of active non-violence". The organization was founded in May 1991 "after several pilots were touched by the death of" fifteen-year-old Gregorio Perez Ricardo, who "fleeing Castro's Cuba on a raft, perished of severe dehydration in the hands of U.S. Coast Guard officers who were attempting to save his life." The Cuban government accuses the organization of involvement in terrorist acts, and infiltrated the group (see Juan Pablo Roque and the Wasp Network...

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