Marieleños hold reunion in Miami to honor Mariel - their hometown before the boatlift

A banquet hall in west Miami-Dade on Sunday became a time machine of sorts to the early Twentieth Century C...

Marieleños hold reunion to celebrate the other Mariel A banquet hall in west Miami-Dade on S...

MARIEL BOATLIFT

Woman's question boosted Mariel

The Mariel boatlift, which ended Sept. 26, 1980, effectively ended President Jimmy Carter's efforts to norm...

Drummer who arrived in U.S. via Mariel boatlift gets national recognition

Ezequiel Torres has made a life celebrating his ancestors. And now the master Afro-Cuban drummer and ar...

HIGH SCHOOL

Where are Filer's students of Mariel?

In September 1980, I was asked to assist with a large group of students who had come from Cuba in the Marie...

MARIEL'S 30TH ANNIVERSARY

Mariel photos evoke pivotal stories

A 30th anniversary search for a baby in a Mariel photo fails -- but others find themselves in historic snap...

Remembering Mariel as home -- not a boatlift

Say the name Mariel and most people will assume you're talking about the massive boatlift 30 years ago that...

Officers never forget glories of Cuba's sole naval academy

Though now in ruins, the naval academy that overlooked the bay at Mariel keeps its place in the hearts of t...

CUBA

Cuba’s food ration stores mark 50th anniversary

The ration card gives every Cuban a basic basket of food for less than $2 a month.

cuba

Cuba’s ex-prisons chief — accused of human-rights abuses — is back in the U.S.

Former prisons chief Crescencio Marino Rivero left Miami for Cuba after half a dozen dissidents accused him...

Gallery owner seeks Cuba-Key West art swap

Key West gallery owner Nance Frank has launched a Web-based fundraising effort to pay for an artistic excha...

CUBA

Ladies in White resign over alleged State Security infiltrator

Several members have quit the group over its refusal to expell an alleged infiltrator from State Security

Castro speech scolds islanders for bad behavior

Raul Castro spent the lion's share of a prominent speech Sunday scolding his countrymen for all kinds of ba...

CUBA

Cuban dissident picks up human rights prize in Europe — three years late

Guillermo Fariñas dedicates the Sakharov Prize to his mother, who saw him through his many hunger str...

In my opinion

Daniel Shoer Roth: U.S. gift to Cuban exiles abused

A walk on the beach to count my blessings led me to understand with greater clarity the polarized debate on...

CUBA

Report says Cuban economic growth hasn’t quickened despite reforms

The Council of Ministers got a report that Cuba’s economy will miss the goal of a 3.6 percent growt...