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“Marielitos”
“Marielitos” was the blanket label applied to the 125,000 Cubans who arrived in the United States during a Cuban-government-sanctioned boatlift from Mariel, Cuba, in 1980. The label, which literally means “little person from Mariel,” was coined by the established anti-Castro, ...
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