The events that came to be known as the Mariel Boatlift saw 125.000 Cubans leave the country on boats towards mainland USA. Although the majority were economic migrants, what the US authorities found out was that a large portion was made of convicts with ongoing sentences and mental health patients
Cuba and How Biden Can Avoid Another Mariel Boatlift: A compromise between Trump’s harsh measures and Obama’s outreach can aid democracy on the island. bloomberg.com/opinion/art…
Cuba and How Biden Can Avoid Another Mariel Boatlift: A compromise between Trump’s harsh measures and Obama’s outreach can aid democracy on the island. bloomberg.com/opinion/art…
Mariel Boatlift 40, Nightly News comes in for a close up. (see comments)
Mariel Boatlift 40 Final Post, please read dedication in comments
Mariel Boatlift 40, Command Ship DALLAS arrives on scene (see comments)
Mariel Boatlift 40, Cuban missile boat pulls a "Crazy Ivan" (see Comments)
Mariel Boatlift 40, H52 maintenance swap (See Comments)
Mariel Boatlift 40, INGHAM prepares ING 1 for the Captain's Conference aboard USS Saipan (LHA)
My mom came on the Mariel boatlifts when she was just 8 years old with her 2 sisters and mom. Looking at these pics really put it into perspective.
Mariel Boatlift 40, Veteran CHEROKEE stems into rain squall (see comments)
Mariel Boatlift 40, Refboat supplied, refueled and given a course to steer (see comments)
Mariel Boatlift 40, VAL 2 MSB and ACUSHNET (see comments)
125,000 people fled socialist Cuba for capitalist America during the Mariel Boatlift in 1980 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar…
Mariel Boatlift 40, WPB with daisy chain tow (see comments)
Mariel Boatlift 40, Refboat full of Marielitos steering Norte (see comments)
[FWI] The military regime in Venezuela has fallen. Cuba's economy tanks. Cuba's population is facing an exodus to South Florida, this time by prevailing global politics and economics and not just another Castro Mariel boatlift.
Mariel Boatlift 40, Cuban Revolutionary Navy (Soviet built) missleboat (See Comments)
Mariel Boatlift 40, Refboat Gypsy DIW and sinking (see comments)
Mariel Boatlift 40, well deck,USS SAIPAN (see comments)
My Dad, a Cuban badass, passed away today at the age of 81. He fled Cuba in 1980 during the Mariel Boatlift. He was a huge presence and unlike anyone else I have ever met. Everyone knew him as the Cubano. May he Rest In Peace. Until we meet again, Dad! Te quiero for ever and always - Tu Negrita
Twiter thread by Scott Cunningham on the Mariel boatlift studies and why Borjas's study (which purports to show large harmful effects on low-skilled natives) is problematic twitter.com/causalinf/sta…
My adult daughter loves mermaids so I decided to make this for her. The arms of the anchor are actually the aft beam of a boat that washed up during the Mariel boatlift many years ago. The rest of the anchor is made up of Driftwood that I found on the beach. I made the mermaid out of plywood.
Mariel Boatlift 40, Helos fly numerous sorties for Refboat Triage (see comments)
Another Cuba map, in this case a reverse Mariel boatlift. One upvote goes to everyone who can guess what recent Hollywood movie this references.
TIL in 1960 Miami was 90% non-Hispanic white, but by 1990 this figure was reduced to around 10%. This was mainly due to Castro's Mariel Boatlift of 1980, which brought 150,000 Cubans to Miami, the largest transport in civilian history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His…
What if the Mariel Boatlift never occurred?
As a recent emigre to the South Florida area, something I hear a lot about is the Mariel Boatlift. Besides watching Scarface, I never really gave it any thought until I moved.
A lot of people claim that it's a big reason to hearing a lot of the "Florida man" stories, as Castro used it as an opportunity to rid Cuba of criminals and the mentally ill.
Is this true? Would South Florida, and Florida as a whole, be vastly different if this didn't happen almost 40 years ago? Would there be less Florida men, and just more old people from the North, if it never happened?
Low-wage immigration reduces wages: Final version of Borjas's Mariel boatlift study gborjas.org/2016/07/13/fi…
Why Statistics Are Not “Damned Lies”. The effect of Mariel boatlift on Miami wages peterturchin.com/blog/201…
What the Mariel Boatlift of Cuban Refugees Can Teach Us about the Economics of Immigration: An Explainer and a Revelation cgdev.org/blog/what-marie…
Cuban refugees arriving in crowded boats during the Mariel boatlift crisis (1980) [2000 x 1300]
Is there any non-bourgeois material on the 'Mariel Boatlift'?
TIL in 1980 Fidel Castro pulled one over on Jimmy Carter and the United States by shipping thousands of criminals to the US in what was called the Mariel Boatlift. youtube.com/watch?v=gl9Od…
[History] Cuban refugees arriving in crowded boats during the Mariel boatlift crisis (1980)
The Great Mariel Boatlift Debate: Does Immigration Lower Wages? wsj.com/articles/the-grea…
The Mariel Boatlift Raised the Wages of Low-Skilled Miamians cato.org/blog/mariel-boat…
