Word: mariel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...allowed to visit relatives in the U.S. The State Department knows it will be flooded with ; requests for tourist visas if the age limit is lifted. "The Cubans are trying to embarrass us," grouses one official. The U.S. suspects that the dictator plans to repeat the 1980 Mariel boatlift, in which he exported malcontents and hardened criminals to southern Florida. "We've been on the blacklist because we don't allow free travel," responds a Havana policymaker. "Now we are doing what they demand, and still we're bad guys...
...then an angry man joined the revelers. Julio Gonzalez, 36, one of Fidel Castro's cast-off gifts to the U.S. in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, came to plead with his estranged girlfriend, Lydia Feliciano, 45. She earned $150 a night checking coats and taking tickets ($5 each) at the club. Gonzalez had lived with Feliciano for eight apparently calm years. But in February he lost his job as a warehouseman. Then the two quarreled bitterly, reportedly over his fondness for her niece, and she ordered him to leave her apartment. Now living in a tiny room and hustling...