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Diana arrived in Miami 1980 at the age of 15 - one of some 125,000 Cubans who left during what became known as the Mariel boatlift.
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Diana arrived in Miami 1980 at the age of 15 - one of some 125,000 Cubans who left during what became known as the Mariel boatlift.
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My latest book is called Mariel's Kitchen: Simple Ingredients to a Delicious and Satisfying Life and although a fabulous cookbook it is also a guide to becoming more green in your kitchen and connecting with food from a place of peace.
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Fidel Castro responded by emptying his jails of lunatics and criminals and sending them to the United States on what came to be known as the Mariel boatlift.
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Rousseff planned to meet with President Raul Castro on Tuesday in the capital and also tour the nearby port of Mariel, which is being expanded with the goal of turning the facility into a base for industry and oil operations in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Seattle Times 2012
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Jimmy Carter, during a six-week period known as the Mariel boatlift, 100,000 Cubans were welcomed to the United
NYT > Home Page By MICHAEL WINERIP 2011
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Today you know, back then, being, like my dad was saying, being a Mariel could be, you know, a negative term, what we would say somebody who was a Mariel was a you know, it wasn't very nice.
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That prompted an estimated 120,000 Cubans to flee in the so-called Mariel boatlift.
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That prompted an estimated 120,000 Cubans to flee in the so-called Mariel boatlift.
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Thin chick at office called Mariel just got nicknamed 'Arial Narrow'.
The VultureKraft 2008
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