Mariel boatlift

During the Mariel boat crisis (English: Mariel boatlift, Spanish: Éxodo del Mariel ) fled between 15 April and 31 October 1980 approximately 125,000 Cuban citizens from the island country in the south of the U.S. state of Florida. The refugees traveled across the harbor at Mariel, near the Cuban capital of Havana, where they were picked up by specially traveled from South Florida workers on a variety of vessels for the crossing to the United States.

Given a cluster of ship hijackings to Florida through aligned willing Cubans since the beginning of the year Fidel Castro had hinted in a speech on March 8, 1980, the Cuban government could find themselves forced by their inclusion in the U.S. to introduce special measures. He recalled the sudden opening of the port Camarioca in 1965 - about the Cuban exiles for a month around 5,000 family members were able to pick up on the sea before a Cuban- American airlift was agreed on to 1973 per year, about 50,000 Cubans in allowed to leave the United States. Castro emphasized its revolutionary project and the struggle for communism is based on the principle of voluntariness. On April 1, penetrated six Cubans in a hijacked bus violently on the grounds of the Peruvian embassy in Havana, in order to apply for political asylum there. Cuban guards that should seal off the embassy tried to prevent the penetration by use of a firearm, one of them was killed in the crossfire. Peru refused to comply with the Cuban request for the extradition of asylum seekers, after Castro had to deduct the police secure the message and let it be known on the radio, each one claiming the Cubans would leave these permits. As a result, several thousand Cubans invaded in the hope of an exit option on the embassy grounds. On April 20, 1980 Castro proclaimed the opening of the port of Mariel Cubans willing to leave the pickup by living relatives abroad.