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A ‘Marielito’ Faces Deportation From the US for a Sentence Served in the 80s

Rolando Marino Cordero Rodríguez was imprisoned for having relations with a minor and was classified as a “sexual predator”. 14ymedio, Havana, November 6, 2025 — United States  Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 76-year-old Rolando Marino Cordero Rodríguez on October 25. Cordero, who arrived in the United States during the Mariel boatlift—the 1980 exodus of … Continue reading “A ‘Marielito’ Faces Deportation From the US for a Sentence Served in the 80s”

A ‘Marielito’ Is Released After One Week in a US Migration Processing Center

Another Cuban, Eduardo Núñez González, has requested his deportation to Spain. 14ymedio, Havana, 10 April 2025 — U.S. Immigration and Customs Control (ICE) is keeping the futures of José Francisco García Rodríguez and Eduardo Núñez González in limbo. Although the former was released after a week at the processing center in Pine Prairie, Louisiana, he … Continue reading “A ‘Marielito’ Is Released After One Week in a US Migration Processing Center”

ICE Detains in the US a ‘Marielito’ Who Fled Cuba 45 Years Ago

José Francisco García had been trying to obtain US citizenship for a decade. 14ymedio, Havana, 4 April 2025 — José Francisco García Rodríguez, 73, who arrived in the United States during the Mariel boatlift—the seaborne stampede of more than 125,000 Cubans in 1980—has been detained since March 31 at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) … Continue reading “ICE Detains in the US a ‘Marielito’ Who Fled Cuba 45 Years Ago”

Cuban Writer Reinaldo García Ramos, of the Mariel Generation, Dies in Miami

In order to leave the country, he had to go to a police station and declare himself “scum” 14ymedio, Havana, August 20, 2024 — The signature of the poet Reinaldo García Ramos was the third in the inaugural issue of Mariel, the exile magazine that marked an entire generation of Cuban intellectuals and artists. This … Continue reading “Cuban Writer Reinaldo García Ramos, of the Mariel Generation, Dies in Miami”

Suspicion Grows that the Cuban Regime is Preparing a Slow Motion Mariel* Through Nicaragua

14ymedio, Havana, 24 November, 2021 — There was not a soul this Tuesday in the basement of the Habana Libre hotel where long lines used to form to buy tickets to Nicaragua’s capital city, Managua, but the storm is coming. After Nicaragua made public this Monday that it will stop requiring visas for Cubans, it only remains … Continue reading “Suspicion Grows that the Cuban Regime is Preparing a Slow Motion Mariel* Through Nicaragua”

The ’Marielitos’ that Populated Miami Look Back on the 40 Years Since the Mass Exodus from Cuba

EFE (via 14ymedio), Jorge Ignacio Pérez, Miami, 16 April 2020 — “The greatest possible change in my life,” is how the journalist Hugo Landa describes to Efe the trip that finally took him out of Cuba, along with 125,000 compatriots, during the ’maritime bridge’ from Cuba’s Port of Mariel to Florida’s Key West. It will … Continue reading “The ’Marielitos’ that Populated Miami Look Back on the 40 Years Since the Mass Exodus from Cuba”

A ‘Marielito’ Will Be Deported After His Release From Prison After 37 Years In The US

14ymedio, Mario Penton, Miami, 22 September 2017 — Carlos Iván González arrived in Florida in 1980, during the Mariel Boatlift exodus, barely 14 years old. Now, at age 50 and after establishing a family in the United States, deportation is hanging over his head. In 2012, he was sentenced by a state judge to five years in … Continue reading “A ‘Marielito’ Will Be Deported After His Release From Prison After 37 Years In The US”

The Mariel Exodus: State Terrorism / Cubanet, Roberto Jesus Quinones

Against the “scum,” acts of repudiation, beatings and humiliations. Against Florida, an invasion of the unemployed Cubanet.org, Roberto Jesus Quinones Haces, Guantanamo, 1 April 2015 – On the first of April 1980 a bus was driven through the entrance to the Peruvian embassy in Havana; its occupants entered and sought political asylum. Unfortunately, the non-commissioned officer of … Continue reading “The Mariel Exodus: State Terrorism / Cubanet, Roberto Jesus Quinones”

The Ferocious Reign of Reinaldo Arenas, the Writer the Cuban Regime Could Not Silence

Memoirs of the author who transformed exile, desire, and rebellion into his own literary territory 14ymedio, Noemí Herrera, Miami, 7 December 2025 — This December 7th marks 35 years since Reinaldo Arenas decided to say goodbye to the world, and I still find it difficult to write the word “death” without feeling that it falls … Continue reading “The Ferocious Reign of Reinaldo Arenas, the Writer the Cuban Regime Could Not Silence”

“The Hippies’ Gathering,” that Fateful 25th of September 1968 in Havana

The experience of being treated like criminals for the simple fact of living freely crudely revealed to us the true face of tyranny. 14ymedio, Rafael Bordeo, Miami, 25 September 2025 — This September 25th marks the 57th anniversary of the incident in which thousands of young people were rounded up from the streets and restaurants while … Continue reading ““The Hippies’ Gathering,” that Fateful 25th of September 1968 in Havana”

‘We’re Going To Be More Surgical, More Effective’ To Bring About Change in Cuba, Says Trump’s Envoy

Mauricio Claver-Carone believes that banning travel and remittances are “old tools.” 14ymedio, Madrid, 4 April 2025 — The United States special envoy for Latin America, Mauricio Claver-Carone, stated this Thursday that the Donald Trump administration will exert more pressure on the Cuban military and intelligence apparatus, and estimated that the economic pressure applied to date … Continue reading “‘We’re Going To Be More Surgical, More Effective’ To Bring About Change in Cuba, Says Trump’s Envoy”

‘Under the Table,’ Juan Abreu’s Best Blow to the Ghost of Cuba

Anger and tenderness are the themes of this book; the rest is literature 14ymedio, Xavier Carbonell, Salamanca, 22 March 2025 — José Lezama Lima’s epitaph was supposed to be a phrase by Flaubert— “All lost, nothing lost” — which he ended up replacing with his own verses. When a Cuban reads Juan Abreu’s Debajo de … Continue reading “‘Under the Table,’ Juan Abreu’s Best Blow to the Ghost of Cuba”

Devoid of Tourists and Canadian Drilling Operations, Boca de Camarioca Is a Shadow of Its Former Self

14ymedio, Fabio Aecio Ettore, Boca de Camarioca (Matanzas province), 11 January 2025 — When Cubans think of the town of Boca de Camarioca, what invariably comes to mind is the mass exodus orchestrated in 1965 by Fidel Castro and Lyndon Johnson, the U.S. president at the time. That stampede was the most notable precursor to … Continue reading “Devoid of Tourists and Canadian Drilling Operations, Boca de Camarioca Is a Shadow of Its Former Self”