The Mariel crisis and it is social imaginaries:: a triangular view between Cuba and EE.UU

Abstract

The Cubans who left the island through the Mariel bridge dragged the social stigma of being described by the Cuban government itself as stateless, scum and worms, denigrating adjectives that constitute a flagrant violation of human rights after leaving the country in traumatic conditions and under the uncertainty that implies the possibility of return, even many homosexuals discriminated against on the island were practically expelled from their own country, a reality that has no precedent in the history of Cuban emigration.

From this perspective, this article pursues the objective of analyzing the representation of the Mariel exodus in three different interrelated scenarios: the narrative of the audiovisual produced on the island itself for propaganda purposes, the vision of the filmmakers of the Cuban diaspora in the United States and the image offered by the Hollywood speech.