Acto De Desaparición

And now, ladies and gentlemen, I ask you to turn your attention to the center ring! The high-flying acrobatics act of Havana-based Circuba is ……

Gone.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Eight Cuban acrobat jugglers disappeared before a performance at a festival in central Mexico last week, presumably to defect to the United States, organizers said on Friday.

The six men and two women, the entire juggling and high-flying acrobatics act of Havana-based Circuba, arrived in the Mexican state of Queretaro last week for an annual festival of musicians, actors and artists from around the world.

The group was part of a troupe of more than 20 Cuban performers attending the fair for the second year in a row.

"They arrived on Thursday, bought cell phones, and by eight in the morning on Friday they were gone," said Guadalupe Navarro, a spokeswoman for the Queretaro fair.

"It's most likely they came prepared with all the contacts they needed to escape," she said.

Hasta la bye bye, Fidel. Funny thing. You never read about an American circus act fleeing to the worker's paradise, do you? To intelligent people, that tells quite a story.