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The Cuban exodus is the mass emigration of Cubans from the island of Cuba after the Cuban Revolution of 1959. Throughout the exodus, millions of Cubans from diverse social positions within Cuban society emigrated within various emigration waves, due to political repression and disillusionment with life in Cuba.
Cuban officials also packed refugees into Cuban fishing vessels. [30] Around 1,700 boats brought thousands of Cubans from Mariel to Florida between the months of April and October in that year. [31] Haitian refugees had been continuously coming to the United States before the Mariel boatlift and continued to do so with the flotilla. [30]
The 1994 Cuban rafter crisis which is also known as the 1994 Cuban raft exodus or the Balsero crisis was the emigration of more than 35,069 Cubans to the United States (via makeshift rafts). [1] The exodus occurred over five weeks following rioting in Cuba; Fidel Castro announced in response that anyone who wished to leave the country could do ...
According to author Susan Eckstein, Cuban exiles “were imagined” to be refugees by successive U.S. administrations and thereby privileged. Cubans’ lives definitely were at risk under Castro.
Freedom Flights (known in Spanish as Los vuelos de la libertad) transported Cubans to Miami twice daily, five times per week from 1965 to 1973. [1] [2] [3] Its budget was about $12 million and it brought an estimated 300,000 refugees, making it the "largest airborne refugee operation in American history."
Amalia Z. Daché, an Afro-Cuban associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, herself a 1980s Mariel boatlift refugee, called such treatment “offensive to Cuban refugees and immigrants ...
Data show migration from Cuba increased the most since the beginning of 2022. Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection “nationwide encounters” from fiscal year 2020 to December 2022.
30 Cuban refugees Operations Safe Haven and Safe Passage (September 8, 1994 – March 15, 1995) were operations by the United States Joint Task Force designed to relieve the overcrowded migrant camps at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base .