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CANF also operates the radio station La Voz de la Fundación which it attempts to transmit to Cuba; it led the effort to establish the U.S. Information Agency's Radio Martí (1985) and TV Martí (1990). Radio Martí and TV Martí are official U.S. broadcasting operations directed to the Cuban people. [5] [non-primary source needed]
The Cubans arriving after 1980 have closer ties to those remaining in Cuba. They tend to take charter flights to and from Miami to Cuba. [2] In 2016 Hillary Clinton performed better than Obama in several heavily Cuban American neighborhoods. [15] In Miami-Dade County, in the 2020 election, Cuban Americans tended to vote for Donald Trump. [16]
Freedom Flights (known in Spanish as Los vuelos de la libertad) transported Cubans to Miami twice daily, five times per week from 1965 to 1973. [1] [2] [3] Its budget was about $12 million and it brought an estimated 300,000 refugees, making it the "largest airborne refugee operation in American history."
14ymedio is Cuba's first independent digital news outlet, founded by blogger Yoani Sanchez in 2014. 14ymedio reports in real time on national and international events that may be relevant to those living in Cuba. Similarly, it seeks to inform those living outside Cuba about the situation on the island.
Many women of Cuban heritage have responded and want to participate in a Miss Universe Cuba competition after a Miami-based franchise said it will select a woman to represent Cuba, who pulled out ...
A group of 55 people whose parents brought them from Cuba returned for three weeks in December 1978 in a rare instance of Cuba allowing the return of Cuban-born émigrés. [4] In December 1978, both countries agreed upon their maritime border, and the next month, they were working on an agreement to improve their communications in the Straits ...
Cuban Americans (Spanish: cubanoestadounidenses [3] or cubanoamericanos [4]) are Americans who immigrated from or are descended from immigrants from Cuba.As of 2023, Cuban Americans were the fourth largest Hispanic and Latino American group in the United States after Mexican Americans, Stateside Puerto Ricans and Salvadoran Americans.
It has been described as the largest mass emigration in Cuba's history. It is re imated that mode than 850,000 Cubans sought refuge into the United States between 2021-2024, depleting Cuba's population by nearly 8%. It is estimated that 50% of the new Cuban arrivals between 2021-2024 (425,000), have settled in Miami-Dade County. [1] [2] [3]