Cuban discrimination in America By: Anthony A. Conde Axia College The first of these recent migrations began immediately after Castro's victory and continued until the U.S. government imposed a blockade of Cuba at the time of the Cuban missile crisis. The first to leave were supporters of Batista. They were later joined by others who had not been prominent Batista allies but who nonetheless opposed Castro's socialist government. Before the U.S government imposed its blockade, almost 250,000 Cubans had left Cuba for the United States. agreed that Cubans with relatives residing in the United States would be transported from Cuba. The transportation of migrants began by boat from the northern port of Camarioca and, when many died in boat accidents, was later continued by plane from the airstrip at Varadero. Almost 300,000 Cubans arrived in the United States during this period. The third migration, known as the Mariel Boat Lift, occurred in 1980 after Castro permitted Cubans residing in the United States to visit relatives in Cuba. many to line up at the Peruvian Embassy, which Castro had opened for emigration. The sheer numbers of Cubans clamoring to leave led Castro to permit any Cubans wishing to emigrate to leave by boat from the port of Mariel. Some 125,000 Cubans took advantage of this opportunity. Many people in the United area. "Put bluntly, what does an English-speaking third-generation, upper status white Cuban American in Florida," asks Latino scholars Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco and Mariela M. Paez, "have in common with a Maya-speaking recent immigrant from Guatemala?" They could have easily added that a white, third-generation, upper crust Cuban has virtually nothing in common with the newly arrived Guatemalan. But that same upper crust Cuban would more likely than not deny the newly arrived Guatemalan immigrant a business, or home loan, and if he or she had the money and skills, employ every scheme imaginable not to rent or sale a home or…
