Thousands of these raft people—or “balseros”—are traversing the streets of Miami, carrying a memory that is seldom-discussed in Cuban culture ... for such a violent transition?

Cuban Reggaeton singer El Taiger died Thursday in a “senseless violent crime,” nearly a week after he was mysteriously discovered inside a car suffering from a gunshot wound to his forehead.

We prayed, and put ourselves in God's hands," she said of her six-day ordeal clinging with five others to a raft made of truck ... to grant visas to 20,000 Cuban migrants a year.