Fleeing Cuba For a Better Life in USA

By at 10 April, 2009, 5:31 pm

by Carlos Miller For many Americans, the Mariel boatlift will forever be associated with the movie Scarface; the 1983 classic about a Cuban refugee named Tony Montana, who as we all know, came in search of the American Dream and found it on the sun washed avenues of Miami. Although there is a lot of truth in that movie, not to mention loads of controversy over the negative image it gave Cuban exiles, the story of Mariel is much more complex than that. It is true that Castro opened his jails during the 1980 exodus, flooding

Miami’s streets with criminals, drug addicts and mentally unhinged people, which contributed to Miami’s skyrocketing crime rate and helped it become murder capital of the world by 1981.  But it’s also true that once the killing subsided and once the majority of the criminals were either imprisoned or dead, the majority of the Marielitos settled into American society to live law-abiding lives. [[ This is a content summary. Visit MiamiBeach411.com for full links, other content, and more! ]] http://www.miamibeach411.com/news/index.php?/news/comments/fleeing-cuba/

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