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WASHINGTON A growing number of aging Cuban exiles are returning to their birthplace, no longer willing to wait for the end of the Castro regime or to outlast the U.S. embargo before seeing their homeland.
Among them is Alfonso Fanjul, a sugar baron from Palm Beach who, at 76, recently revealed that he has been quietly visiting the island of his youth, setting off a backlash from embargo backers.
"It's rampant, the number of people going back of my generation," said Silvia Wilhelm, 67, of Miami, who left Cuba in 1961 and now leads cultural tours to the island. "My generation, and Alfy Fanjul's generation, we left very young. The majority are happy they left, but they don't want to die without going home."
Among them is Alfonso Fanjul, a sugar baron from Palm Beach who, at 76, recently revealed that he has been quietly visiting the island of his youth, setting off a backlash from embargo backers.
"It's rampant, the number of people going back of my generation," said Silvia Wilhelm, 67, of Miami, who left Cuba in 1961 and now leads cultural tours to the island. "My generation, and Alfy Fanjul's generation, we left very young. The majority are happy they left, but they don't want to die without going home."