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Crisis

Cuba · Government / Communist Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1980Date range
1Named people
2Places

Chronological records

1980

Fidel Alejandro CastroApril 1980

Havana · Government / Communist Party Government

Dissidents occupy the Peruvian Embassy & Cuba allows a mass exodus from Port Mariel

Fidel Alejandro CastroApril 1980

Mariel · Government / Communist Party Government

125,000 migrant Cubans board US bound vessels at Port Mariel

Names involved

Fidel Alejandro Castro

Provenance

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