Marielita

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Marielita 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 Marielita, 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 "Marielitas", and even Cuban exiles in general, as being criminals.

[edit] See also

• Mariel boatlift

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