Marielito
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Marielito is a term applied to roughly 125,000 people who fled to the United States from the Cuban port of Mariel as part of the exodus of refugees in 1980.
Scarface, a 1983 movie starring Al Pacino, concerns a fictional Marielito, a criminal released from the Cuban prison population to the US. Because a number of prisoners were released alongside other refugees, an impression developed of "Marielitos", and even Cuban exiles in general, as being criminals.
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Bay of Pigs Invasion • Brothers to the Rescue • Cuban American • Cuban-American lobby • Cuban Five • Cuban Missile Crisis • Elián González • Guantanamo Bay Naval Base • Helms-Burton Act • List of Cuba-US aircraft hijackings • Luis Posada Carriles • Mariel boatlift • Opposition to Fidel Castro • Platt Amendment • Spanish-American War • United States embargo against Cuba • United States Interests Section in Havana • United States Ambassadors to Cuba •
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