http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com The Cuban Revolution 60 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:51:46 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809307.html http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809307.html Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:44 EST This 10-part series examines the Cuban revolution that affected millions on both sides of the Florida Straits. http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809308.html http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809308.html Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:46 EST The flights were the most organized resettlement effort of refugees ever sponsored by the U.S. government. http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809312.html http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809312.html Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:48 EST Miami's Freedom Tower hosted a discussion on Cuba five decades after the revolution. http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809313.html http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809313.html Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:49 EST Thousands of women shared cells and horror stories under Castro's regime. http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809314.html http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809314.html Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:49 EST The destruction of the landmark Havana department store marked the end of an era. http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809315.html http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809315.html Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:50 EST Clubs based on racial exclusivity, for Afro-Cubans as well as other groups, are making a comeback in Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809319.html http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809319.html Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:52 EST History was made on New Year's Eve 1958 when Batista fled and insurgents led by Castro declared victory. http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809316.html http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809316.html Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:51 EST An account of the last day of Batista's regime and the first day of Castro's reign. http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809320.html http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809320.html Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:53 EST The image of the 'yanqui comandante' has faded, but ex-rebels still recall his role in the revolution. http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809321.html http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809321.html Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:54 EST There is only one man in Miami who had a front seat to Cuba's revolution - Huber Matos. http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/807685.html http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/807685.html Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:03 EST <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/">The Freedom Flights</a> represent the largest and longest resettlement program of political refugees ever sponsored by the U.S. government , offering an escape from Fidel Castro's Cuba to 265,000 people. This is an effort for people who were on the Freedom Flights to find their names, as well as their families, complete their records, and reconnect over the memory. This is the only public record of the Freedom Flights at this time. http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809343.html http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809343.html Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:06 EST http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809345.html http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809345.html Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:06 EST http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809341.html http://www.miamiherald.com/revolution/story/809341.html Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:04 EST http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/839735.html http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/839735.html Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:15 EST First of all, I would like to thank you for your great efforts in compiling the Freedom Flights date base information. It was with great emotion that I looked up my father's arrival to freedom information. http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/839731.html http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/839731.html Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:12 EST We arrive on July 24 1968, I remember as soon we were in the plane we heard a welcome from Pres. Johnson, as we arrive in Miami there were a priest & minister to welcome as I will never will forget that day. http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/839730.html http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/839730.html Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:11 EST It was November 27, 1967 when my mother ( now 83 years old), my father (now deceased) and I came to the United states via the Freedom Flight. We planned to come earlier, but the Bay of Pigs invasion delayed our plans since all flights were put on halt. http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/834759.html http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/834759.html Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:01 EST My brother, Carlos Costales, left Cuba on April 1961 with a waiver visa through the Catholic Church. He was a Pedro Pan boy. http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/834758.html http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/834758.html Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:59 EST I remember that when my plane landed in Miami on Dec. 11, 1972, there were television cameras at the airport because our flight was the first one after they had been suspended them for awhile. I got off the plane with my then husband and my daughter, Grettel, who was carrying her doll so that attracted the photographers. http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/827298.html http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/827298.html Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:30 EST We arrived at the Freedom Towers at night. We were not able to contact the family that claimed us (Dr. Ramon Mas Martin and his wife Alba) until late in the night. They were coming from Daytona Beach to pick us up and did not arrive until early morning on February 27th. http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/827295.html http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/827295.html Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:27 EST We had remained in Cuba due to the Missile Crisis. My 11 year old brother and I, 8 years old, were kept out of school, my parents had given away most of our household items to neighbors and family in anticipation to our departure on October 1st 1962 which never occurred. http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/827294.html http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/827294.html Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:25 EST Llegue de Cuba en Noviembre 23, 1967, despues de 8 meses de separacion de mi senora e hijo que habian llegado en Marzo de ese ano. Recuerdo que cuando bajamos del avion habia una gran comitiva de clerigos de distintas denominaciones recibiendonos y cuando pregunte a que se debia aquello me explicaron que habiamos llegado en el Dia de Dar Gracias. http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/827292.html http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/827292.html Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:22 EST Our family started the journey from our hometown of Victoria de las Tunas, Oriente on April 7, 1967. My mom's cousin drove us to Camaguey for an overnight stay at my father's oldest sister. Next day we traveled by train to Havana for another overnight stay at another aunt's apartment in Vedado. http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/824399.html http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/824399.html Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:27 EST At 4 years old I was acutely aware of the fear and danger that we lived in while under the Castro regime. I knew how to handle the "miliciano" that would occasionally show up unexpectedly at our door and interrogate me as to who visited our family, identity of our friends, where exactly did my father work, etc. http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/824398.html http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/824398.html Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:25 EST We arrived at Miami International Airport on Wednesday, May 3, 1967 on the second flight of the day: Mayra Rodriguez Varela -- 10 year old child (me), my father: Antonio Rodriguez Alfonso - deceased 10/23/1993, and my mother: Blanca Sara H. Varela Lorenzo - deceased 01/07/1993. http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/823218.html http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/823218.html Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:59 EST We arrived at Miami International Airport on 12-15-1966 and were whisked away in a bus to a shelter located right at the airport. I was six years old and in awe. http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/822813.html http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/822813.html Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:50 EST I would like to say that I was born knowing that we would be leave Cuba. Household conversations, particularly hush-toned ones, were always about our departure. It was always a question of the when. http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/822762.html http://www.miamiherald.com/freedomflights/story/822762.html Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:01 EST I came on August 20th 1970, with my husband Pedro Martinez Perez, nick name EL Chaparro, and my daughter Viviana Martinez, she was 2 years old. We are living in New Orleans, Louisiana for 38 years.