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Earlier this month, NBC's Mark Potter told us about the circuitous route that Cuban emigrants use--southwest to the Yucatan Peninsula and then north through Mexico--to arrive at the United States border and win political asylum. Now in an Exclusive, Potter reports from Havana on the direct route out of the "hidden coves and islands" along Cuba's northern coast. Potter showed nighttime surveillance footage of high-speed smuggling powerboats carrying emigrants to south Florida for $10,000 per trip. He also showed us the do-it-yourself method: he slipped with a clandestine camera into a secret garage where "they are quietly building a boat to the United States--they know it is illegal and dangerous." A young man's death at sea, lamented Potter, is "a tragedy shared by a lot of Cuban mothers."
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