They want a blockade of Cuban ports, even the use of force.
Vessels at all Cuban ports were advised to remain in port.
Teach probably sailed toward Havana, where he may have captured a small Spanish vessel that had left the Cuban port.
The schooner was well known in the Cuban port but the Customs authorities never relaxed their vigilance.
She was named after the Cuban port of Mariel-her father and grandfather visited the village regularly to go fishing.
There was a smaller wave of refugees in 1965 from the Cuban port of Camarioca.
"I want to know where this ship was between the time the destroyer left it and the time it showed up in this Cuban port."
The release came a day after the ship was ordered into a Cuban port by a gunboat.
And merchant ships that stop at Cuban ports will be barred from the more lucrative American market for six months after they leave Cuba.
However, Cortés quickly gathered more men and ships in other Cuban ports.