Mariel Boatlift from Cuba

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Recorded25 May 2011

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In 1980, more than 100,000 Cubans left the island in a boatlift from Mariel harbour.Witness speaks to the writer, Mirta Ojito, about how she fled from communism with her family.Photo: Mirta (left) with her father and sister.

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