fleeing Cuba. The Mariel Boatlift began in April of 1980, when a group of Cubans stormed the Peruvian embassy in Havana, killing a guard. Fidel Castro asked the embassy to return the attackers ...

On March 21, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Cuba since Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution. The visit will continue his ongoing efforts to normalize relations ...

Refugees grow up fast. These teenagers escaped from an Army base that served as a holding camp for Cuban refugees during the Mariel Boatlift, a temporary exodus from the island nation sanctioned ...

Immigration officials stopped more than 175,000 Cuban migrants who entered the US since October — easily eclipsing the number who arrived during the massive Mariel boatlift of 1980, according to ...

The Dr. Daniels, loaded with 600 to 700 Cuban refugees, pulls into the docks in Key West during the seven-months of the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Keith Graham Miami Herald File This month, 44 years ...

And I did. And obviously no regrets. It was a little hard but worth it.” On this date: Cuban refugees arrive at Fort Indiantown Gap in Lebanon County He got his ride over courtesy of a Cuban ...

The 1980 event that came to be known as the Mariel Boatlift marked a turning point in U.S. immigration policy. Faced with widespread internal dissent, the Communist regime of Cuban president Fidel ...