Mariel
Cuban harbor city
Mariel is a feminine given name, a Spanish diminutive of María.
It gained visibility in American English through the 1980 Mariel boatlift, when roughly 125,000 Cubans emigrated to the United States from the port of Mariel, Cuba.
A Marielito is a Cuban who arrived during this exodus.
Cuba
Caribbean island country
- refugeePerson fleeing danger abroad
- exodusMass departure from somewhere
- MiamiSoutheast Florida coastal city
1980 · immigration · asylum · flotilla · Castro · freedom · harbor · Cuban-American · diaspora · Little Havana
Marlene
Germanic feminine name
- Marie Curie
- Marie Antoinette
- Ave MariaPrayer to the Madonna
- Santa Maria1492 expedition flagship
- Marie Kondo
- Lisa Marie Presley