Cuban Exile Leader Ramon Saul Sanchez Facing Possible Deportation Over Flotillas Activity

By Ivan Taylor, CBS Miami

July 21, 2023

MIAMI -- A well-known activist who has been in South Florida for years is facing serious allegations that could result in him being sent back to Cuba.

Ramon Saul Sanchez, 68, has been known for years for heading flotillas, a fleet of vessels that travel to international waters in order to throw flowers close to Cuba to commemorate the deaths of rafters and people murdered by the Havana regime, has been accused of illegal activity, he said.

"The (federal) government alleges that I am a terrorist," he said Thursday, pointing to a 17-page document in which U.S. immigration officials listed the reasons they want him removed from the county. "They allege that the flotillas disrupt international relations because they are irresponsible events that I entice people to go to these crazy events. Those are memorial flotillas to remember children, women and men who were murdered by the Cuban regime."

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