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2014,2015
Overview
The desire for a better life with more opportunities brought Latinos from Cuba and Puerto Rico to the United States in droves in the early part of the twentieth century, just as generations of immigrants had done before and after them.
For these immigrants, home was a place riddled with problems brought by long histories of colonialism, racism, and classism. This migration began as early as the 1860s, when political persecution, poverty, and lack of opportunity under Spanish colonialism drove Cubans to the United States. The trend continued following Cuba’s independence from Spain in 1898, when Cuban oligarchs and foreign
