US grants political asylum to pilot who fled Cuba in a Soviet-era crop duster plane
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The United States Justice granted political asylum to a Cuban pilot who fled the island four months ago in a Soviet-made crop duster plane and landed at an airport in South Florida, his lawyer Eduardo Soto reported on Friday. Martínez Machado was at a Pompano Beach immigration center while immigration authorities were reviewing his case, […]