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Havana Chronicles: From the Mariel Boatlift’s Weaponized Eggs to the Luxury Egg

The energy crisis and inflation are transforming a food that was abundant on Cuban tables for decades into an almost exclusive item. 14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Havana, 4 July 2026 / “You all really slept with electricity last night,” a woman selling bags of groceries chides me outside the Tulipán market. The woman, who lives across … Continue reading “Havana Chronicles: From the Mariel Boatlift’s Weaponized Eggs to the Luxury Egg”

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”

Havana Chronicles: Cuba, The Country That Unlearns

The Cuban crisis forces people to give up the basic habits that sustain communal life 14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Havana, July 22, 2026 / The street I walk down is called Hidalgo, but on one of its corners, the poorest people in my neighborhood gather, while waiting for their bread from the ration books. Some couldn’t … Continue reading “Havana Chronicles: Cuba, The Country That Unlearns”

Havana Chronicles: “Here, Surviving”

In a country where the state no longer provides electricity, water, medicine, or bread, each family tries to survive however they can. 14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Havana, July 16, 2026 / Today I couldn’t take the trash down the stairs. It wasn’t any heavier than usual, but my body sent me a telegram,  brief and forceful: … Continue reading “Havana Chronicles: “Here, Surviving””

Havana Chronicles: The Blackout Lunatics

Amid banging pots and pans, plumes of smoke, and outages, the Cuban electricity crisis seems to have turned madness into a widespread state. 14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Havana, July 7, 2026 / The day after a power outage, everything moves much more slowly. This Tuesday, I spent long minutes trying to flag down an electric tricycle … Continue reading “Havana Chronicles: The Blackout Lunatics”

A Report Warns About the Dramatic Situation of Cubans Deported to Mexico by the U.S.

Human Rights Watch points out that 26% of the 4,453 deportees originating from the Island had no criminal charges at all. 14ymedio, Madrid, May 27, 2026 — The deportations of Cubans to Mexico have multiplied exponentially during the second term of Donald Trump, reaching 4,453 when counting from January 2025 through March 2026. Of the … Continue reading “A Report Warns About the Dramatic Situation of Cubans Deported to Mexico by the U.S.”