Word: camarioca
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...Castro suddenly permitted the massive sealift? Among other things, he has managed to rid his country of hundreds of dissidents and slightly relieved the demand for food and other goods in an already strapped economy. For much these same reasons he opened Camarioca, 65 miles east of Havana, as a refugee port in October 1965 and invited Cuban Americans to fetch relatives and friends. By the time he closed the port, about a month later, some 3,000 Cubans had exited by that route. That operation paved the way for the "freedom flights," sponsored by Washington, that eventually brought...
...week's end Castro still seemed as eager to get rid of his disaffected citizens as they were to get out. Three charter boats were evacuating 2,000 refugees stranded at the port of Camarioca since the small-boat exodus was cut off three weeks ago, and the word was that the airlift would begin...
...departure from Cuba will be given to refugees whose relatives live outside Miami, on the theory that the newcomers will follow their kin. Even so, the Federal Government cannot force them to live in any particular place. Of the 2,800 Cubans who arrived by boat before Castro closed Camarioca last week, 2,200 have registered with the Refugee Emergency Center; only 1,450 have agreed to settle outside Miami...
...agreement, according to Washington, will do away entirely with the dangerous small-boat traffic from the port of Camarioca. Instead, the U.S. will set up an airlift of at least two flights a day-six days a week-between Miami and Varadero 70 miles east of Havana. The flights will carry 65 refugees each, or from 3,000 to 4,000 a month, and begin about ten days after the official announcement. More than 150,000 Cubans are expected to sign up. Immediate relatives of exiles in the U.S. will get first priority, then anyone else who wants to leave...
...forms to exiles who hope to get relatives off the island. Such figures bring groans from Miami civic officials, who already have their hands full trying to assimilate 100,000 of the 300,000 exiles living in the U.S. But there is no choice. As one housewife confided in Camarioca: "I'm afraid of the boat ride, but I'll leave any way I can. I'm desperate. I'll go if I have to walk...