Council of Foreign Relations
Council on Foreign Relations: u.s. Cuban Relations
The tense relationship between USA and Cuba is a complicated one. This article addresses ten topics including the current status between the countries, public opinion, main issues in conflict, role of Raul Castro, why Cuba is on world...
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Alexander M. Stephens, "Wet Foot, Dry Foot: The Mariel Boatlift"
This article focuses on the "wet foot, dry foot" and the Mariel boatlift, immigration policies for Cubans to enter the US. In one of its final acts, the Obama Administration ended the "wet foot, dry foot" policy, closing a special path...
A&E Television
History.com: The Mariel Boatlift: How Cold War Politics Drove Thousands of Cubans to Florida in 1980
After Fidel Castro loosened emigration policies, some 125,000 Cubans landed on U.S. shores over a span of five months. The Mariel Boatlift of 1980 was a mass emigration of Cubans to the United States. The exodus was driven by a stagnant...