From Turmoil to Triumph 25 Years After Cubans' Mariel Boatlift. Oscar Corral and Andres Viglucci.
by Corral, Oscar; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 13Environment. Publisher: Miami Herald, 2005ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Cuban Americans -- Attitudes | Emigration and immigration -- Cuba | Mariel Boatlift (1980) | Miami (Fla.) | Refugees -- CubanDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Ivette Motola was a seasick little girl clad in the only shirt she owned when she stepped off a leaky boat onto Key West, Fla., in 1980 and boarded a bus to the Orange Bowl. A few days later, an overcrowded shrimp boat brought ex-convict Pedro Oliva from Cuba to Key West and set him loose on American society. Today [2005], Motola, 31, is a Harvard-trained doctor. Oliva, 51, has just been released from years of federal detention with a long criminal record, including child molestation." (MIAMI HERALD) This article illustrates how the extreme divergent paths of Cuban refugees "have come to define the Mariel boatlift, an extraordinary social upheaval that roiled Miami and forever altered the city's makeup, politics and history."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: From Turmoil to Triumph 25 Years After Cubans' Mariel Boatlift, April 6, 2005; pp. n.p..
"Ivette Motola was a seasick little girl clad in the only shirt she owned when she stepped off a leaky boat onto Key West, Fla., in 1980 and boarded a bus to the Orange Bowl. A few days later, an overcrowded shrimp boat brought ex-convict Pedro Oliva from Cuba to Key West and set him loose on American society. Today [2005], Motola, 31, is a Harvard-trained doctor. Oliva, 51, has just been released from years of federal detention with a long criminal record, including child molestation." (MIAMI HERALD) This article illustrates how the extreme divergent paths of Cuban refugees "have come to define the Mariel boatlift, an extraordinary social upheaval that roiled Miami and forever altered the city's makeup, politics and history."
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