Cuba Libre

The excitement of the trip was unbearable to the younger men, as they headed to America. The old man had been there once, over forty years earlier. They first have to cross the ninety-mile-wide natural moatto the country they have read about, seen on television and listened to on the radio. Impressions have already been formed on what to expect when they get there. They fear, love, and hate the United States all at the same time with personal justification.

Trying to escape becomes a horrifying idea to the victims as they look up to the surface observing the light rays bending in all directions. The blue of the sky twists with the bubbles from their lungs. Screaming underwater and thrashing while the oxygen in their blood stream is reduced to a level were the brain begins to shut down. Lost are the memories and the untolled human potential. No one to witness, to write, or to talk about the horrifying events. No help from either guilty political party. The sea serves as the perfect tool of the two governments. Nature is their partner in this crime against humanity. Nature takes no sides. Physics follows its laws of buoyancy and differential pressure. When man has miscalculated these values, nature hands out her justice. The sharks hide the evidence of these absolutely, perfect murders.