Talk:Mariel boatlift
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hi i am just reminding everyone that i will be adding 2 additional sections to the page as par my class assignment one on the class of the refugees and another on the impact on the labour market --MichaelTristanoLombardo (talk) 21:37, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
- Nice of you to do so. However, the table you inserted as an image (Image:Pqdlink.jpeg) won't do as it is. You can copy its data into a Wikipedia table or, even better, a bar graph you make of the data and then upload. Your image does not follow the rule that
- In general, non-free content uploaded under the Exemption Doctrine should be used only when the specific image itself is significant to the article, not merely what it depicts. The image must be not replaceable by a free content alternative that depicts the same thing. Classical geographer (talk) 09:05, 11 December (UTC)
[edit] Fact and Fiction
Have I seen too many movies, or were the majority of the refugees from Cuba's prisons?--129.252.176.46 14:07, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
It wasn't the majority, but there were definitely a lot more than one would normally see. Sparkleiya 06:53, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Too much Hollywood?
There seems to be a very large amount of data and citations here that border on defensive. Many of the statistics and citations, as written, seem designed to assuage the negative perception of Mariel as portrayed in movies like Scarface and the perceptions such works have created. Much pain has been taken to refute allegations of increased criminal activity, impact on local economy, and so on. It seems those things, if explained in this article, should include references or citations from the period which generated that original viewpoint. I don't actually see the need for any of that discussion, but if it is to be included, it should, at the least, contain the viewpoints that led to the defensive posture. Better, in my opinion, would be to cite the works such as Scarface that led to the general perception, and expose them as fictional, than to attempt to disprove what are, admittedly, mostly novelized and extreme views on the event. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.187.101.177 (talk) 07:04, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] What happened to them?
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What happened to all of these refugees? How many were deported? Granted asylum? -- Beland 01:41, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Source?
"25,000 had some mental, psychological, and psychiatric problems, but it was generally agreed that this was the result of communist persecution." Source? "Generally accepted" is not acceptable in wikipedia.Mcspiff 23:07, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] NPOV???
I think a disclaimer is in order. How does this conform to a neutral point of view? "Ordinary Cubans also began to realize that a great lie had been perpetuated on them: namely, everything you had been told about the United States was a lie."
[edit] Jesus Mezquia
He was one of several thousand criminals Fidel Castro released in the original Mariel Boatlift.He murdered Mia Zapata and was convicted on March 25, 2004, and he was sentenced to 36 years in prison. Her case was featured on Unsolved Mysteries and on 48 Hours. Mezquia was linked to the crime in 2003 when a DNA profile was extracted from a saliva sample left on her body.
[edit] Tatoos
Medical examiners of Dade county examined and catalogued many of the tatoos found on the refugees from Cuba during the Mariel Boatlift in an effort to better understand their significance. The designs were associated with specific religious and criminal groups in Cuba.
According to an article by James Ridgway de Szigethy [1] U.S. Law Enforcement officials began to investigate the significance of body art after the Marielitos began committing heinous crimes in the States. Many of those refugees practiced "Santeria" a religion that combines Catholic beliefs with African Animism. --Beau T. Jarvis 21:05, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
