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There is one here on the south shore, including a tiny hole-in-the-wall Cuban restaurant out in St Jean. There's a Spanish-language Catholic church in Iberville so it's centred around that.
There is one here on the south shore, including a tiny hole-in-the-wall Cuban restaurant out in St Jean. There's a Spanish-language Catholic church in Iberville so it's centred around that.
Do these Cubans tend to have a different attitude than those stereotypically associated with Miami - that is, are they indifferent to or supportive of the Cuban government?
The community I believe is tiny relative to other Latin American communities. I have rarely met any. Communities from Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Chile, El Salvador, etc. are much much larger in Canada.
Do these Cubans tend to have a different attitude than those stereotypically associated with Miami - that is, are they indifferent to or supportive of the Cuban government?
I'm sure most of those "bitter exiles" are dead since they were likely older than Fidel when they came to this country in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
I'm sure most of those "bitter exiles" are dead since they were likely older than Fidel when they came to this country in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Weren't there quite a few successive migrations after the 60s, including a fairly massive one in the 1980s?
Weren't there quite a few successive migrations after the 60s, including a fairly massive one in the 1980s?
There were several "waves", but the Cuban immigrants that seem to stereotype the whole community came in the first wave - late 50s and early 60s. Some were supporters of the dictator Batista, but others weren't. Some even supported the "revolution", but turned against it when their properties were confiscated. These people came almost exclusively from Cuba's middle and upper classes. Since the men in this group were typically middle-aged heads of household, those still living would be in their 90s.
The girl who manages our gymn is a recent transplant from from Cuba, any Questions you want me to ask her?
When you lived in Tampa, you may have encountered people of Cuban ancestry whose forebears settled in Ybor City.
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