World Atlantic Airlines, Inc.

It was Sunday.

Alberto Hernandez Castillo allegedly flew into Miami International Airport on World Atlantic Airlines from Havana, Cuba.

According to this criminal complaint, he said he just had a carry-on and a fanny pack.

He didn't say what else he was packing.

Cuba's totalitarian government nevertheless remains a cause du jour among some on the international left, as witnessed by a bit of luxury revolutionary tourism undertaken by a cadre of groups like Code Pink, Progressive International, and the Democratic Socialists of America to the island earlier this year.

where trip participants chartered a plane to Havana operated by World Atlantic Airlines, an entity previously best known for operating deportation flights for Trump's Department of Homeland Security, and stayed in luxury hotels while praising the regime and its sadism.

What may appear at first as simply more examples of the communist deluxe, as the Cuban writer Ronaldo Arenas once termed the phenomenon, may, however, in fact, be less diffuse and more intentional than it first appears, consisting of overlapping individuals and organizations and an enormous amount of money, its providence often hidden behind layers of charitable anonymity.

Susana Molinet is an independent researcher based in Spain who earlier this year co-authored an investigation for the Cuban exile news site El Toque, titled Red de Apoyo el Autoritarismo, Network of Support for Authoritarianism.

What'd you smuggle?" "Birds." What? That's so lame.

Uh, federal criminal complaint states that Customs and Border Protection officers pulled Alberto Hernandez Castillo after he arrived o- on a World Atlantic Airlines flight from Havana, Cuba.

Uh, agents said he's a Cuban national, legal permanent US resident, claimed to have nothing to declare, and said he was on the island to visit family.

This is at, this is, uh, uh, Merritt Island in Florida, I believe.