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COPYRIGHT 2005 South Florida Sun-Sentinal
Byline: Vanessa Bauza
HAVANA _ Near the end of his brief battle with cancer, Humberto Reyes longed to travel from Miami to his childhood home in Havana so he could die with his mother by his side. But the travel visa he requested from the Cuban government arrived 10 days too late.
Reyes' last wish would be fulfilled in death.
Like a growing number of Cuban-American families who choose to bury loved ones in their homeland, Reyes' wife in Miami paid a funeral parlor $3,000 to transport his body back to Cuba in a sealed, gray coffin.
It had been only 14 months since he left Cuba, eager to begin a new life in South Florida after receiving a coveted U.S. visa. Reyes' family never expected he would return so soon only to be buried in a crypt at Havana's stately Colon Cemetery.
His mother, Eugenia Estrada, said having Reyes' body back in Havana provided some...
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