Private US aid arrives in Cuba
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A private US flotilla carrying humanitarian aid arrived in Cuba in a bid to support what its sponsors say is a growing pro-democracy movement there, AFP reports from Key West, Florida.
The boats -- mostly small craft whose total number was not given -- arrived Sunday in a port near Havana after sailing Saturday and Sunday from this southern Florida port, according to the Key West group Basta which organized the initiative.
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