MIAMI — Peering at artifacts from an era of mass immigration into South Florida, Miriam Castro recalls snapshots from her own journey as an exiled young girl. Castro was just 9 in August 1961 when she ...
MIAMI — There was nothing atypical about the young man. At the moment in the mid-1960s, he seemed as dazed as every other teenager I had seen walk into "El Refugio," the Spanish moniker for the Cuban ...
Miami's Freedom Tower served as a resettlement center for over 400,000 Cuban refugees from 1962 to 1974. The author shares personal memories of the center, where his mother worked and his family ...