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68 of its residents were killed in Cuba plane crash. Now Holguín is filled with grief

May 28, 2018

Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald

A flamenco dancer. A woman on her way to meet her mother, visiting from the United States. A doctor on vacation from a job in Brazil. Ten couples from an Evangelical church. A sociologist finishing his master's degree. And a mother with a 7-year-old daughter.

Those are some of the 68 people who boarded an airplane in Havana a week ago on their way to their home city of Holguín in eastern Cuba.

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