Uprooted, Ep. 2: Youth Lost to a Revolution
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English - October 12, 2022 06:05 - 41.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsGovernment History wisconsin supreme court abortion redistricting electoral maps gerrymandering partisan cuba cuban fort mccoy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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When Fidel Castro took control of Cuba in 1959, some feared the shift to communism and left almost right away. Decades later, the changes brought on by the revolution would also lead to almost 15,000 Cuban refugees coming to Wisconsin as part of the Mariel Boatlift of 1980.