By Anthony Vidal Protests and marches against the Cuban government are taking place all around Cuba, in a never-seen-before series of events. The country of Cuba has long been an example of a regime and a dictatorship. Since the end of the revolution on January 1st, 1959, the notorious Castro regime ruled with a heavy…
By Valeria Bula Swimming through perilous oceans— facing the threat of dehydration, starvation, drowning, heat exhaustion, and shark attacks— thousands of Cubans throughout the decades have traversed the 90 mile trek, many dying, in a desperate attempt to reach American soil. The majority reach the U.S. on make-shift rafts while others make it on motor…
By Daylin Delgado On January 12, 2017— a week before President-elect Donald Trump and his administration take office— the Obama Administration announced the end of the “wet foot, dry foot” policy. The termination of the policy is effective immediately. The “wet foot, dry foot” policy, part of the 1995 revision of the Cuban Adjustment Act…
By Elizabeth Gonzalez Under the totalitarian dictatorship of Fidel Castro, many Cubans, some of which were exiled, migrated to the United States. They settled here in Miami, ready to build a new life in hopes of living the American dream. These people, with nothing but the clothes on their backs and the few items they…
By Robyn Forbes Former Cuban leader Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born 90 years ago and died five days ago on November 25, 2016. The news broke in the United States early on Saturday morning and brought many Cuban-Americans a sense of freedom and long overdue justice. Hearing that their once oppressor was dead prompted…
By Nathalie Mairena It was Cold War hostilities that pushed the Cuban embargo in 1961. The embargo completely froze commercial, financial, and economic ties between the United States and Cuba, and thus it has remained for the past 54 years. That is until yesterday, December 17, when Obama said they would return to “normalized” relations…
Older Cuban Americans, and older people in general, believe that my generation is apathetic. They call us the “me generation,” far removed from the struggles, political strife and activism that they experienced. Cuban Americans specifically feel that my generation of Cubans — most were born here — do not understand the exiles’ plight.
Five decades after the Cuban embargo was put in place to hopefully bring down the communist government of Cuba, the Caribbean nation’s 11 million people are still under the hard control of the Castro brothers. Recently, a conversation on it’s effectiveness has reached the national stage and many Cuban Americans are finding themselves on opposite…