Eight Cuban performers decided to trade in their juggling pins for cell phones before vanishing in Mexico, presumably in order to defect to the United States. Shazam, compay!:

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.

Cubans are constantly showing-off. Yes, Cuba, we get it. No need for the gross propaganda. You have the best, most literate escape artists in the world. Whatever.

Cuban circus juggling act vanishes on Mexican tour [Scotsman]