43 Cuban Dance Troupe Members Ask U.S. Asylum

The Record, Bergen County, NJ › November 16, 2004

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LAS VEGAS - Forty-three members of a Cuban dance troupe performing at a Las Vegas casino asked for asylum in the United States on Monday in the one of the biggest mass defections of entertainers from the Communist country.

Members of the cast said they took the step because they feared they would be forced to quit performing if they returned to Havana. They said Cuban authorities did not want them to perform in the United States in the first place.

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43 Cuban Dance Troupe Members Ask U.S. Asylum

"They were forced into this," Nicole "N.D" Durr,...

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