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    A Mother Arrives on U.S. Soil with Her Son's Ashes and Dreams of Freedom

    Reina Luisa Tamayo, mother of Orlando Zapata Tamayo, has arrived in the U.S. 

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    Reina Luisa Tamayo, the mother of Orlando Zapata Tamayo, arrives at Miami International Airport on Thursday carrying her son's ashes in a box covered by a Cuban flag.
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    Members of the Cuban exile community greet Reina Luisa Tamayo with banners of support for her son, Orlando Zapata Tamayo, who died after a hunger strike to protest treatment of Cuba's political prisoners.
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    Reina Luisa Tamayo vows to keep her son's fight for a free Cuba alive while in exile in the United States.
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    Cuban American supporters stand behind Reina Luisa Tamayo as she address the press in Miami. She had refused to leave Cuba unless Cuban officials allowed her to take her son's ashes with her.
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    A Mother Arrives on U.S. Soil with Her Son's Ashes and Dreams of Freedom

    Reina Luisa Tamayo, mother of Orlando Zapata Tamayo, has arrived in the U.S. 

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