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Some samples about Cuban immigrants.
Some samples about Cuban immigrants.
Weet feet / Dry feet
Weet feet / Dry feet
Original Mixed Media on canvas, 54 x 81 inches (2010).
Original Mixed Media on canvas, 54 x 81 inches (2010).
The wet feet, dry feet policy essentially says that anyone who emigrated from Cuba and entered the United States would be allowed to pursue residency a year later. Prior to 1995, the U.S. government allowed all Cubans who reached U.S. territorial waters to remain in the U.S. After talks with the Cuban government, the Clinton administration came to an agreement with Cuba that it would stop admitting people intercepted in U.S. waters. For two decades thereafter, any Cuban caught on the waters between the two nations (with "wet feet") would summarily be returned to Cuba or sent to a third country, while one who made it to shore ("dry feet") got a chance to remain in the United States, and later would qualify for expedited "legal permanent resident" status in accordance with the 1966 Act and eventually U.S. citizenship.
Cuban "gusano" arriving to Miami
Cuban "gusano" arriving to Miami
Original Mixed Media on canvas, 46 x 54 inches (2014).
Original Mixed Media on canvas, 46 x 54 inches (2014).
The Cuban government calls their opponents using a derogatory nickname: "the worms" (in Spanish "los gusanos"). This painting symbolizes a Cuban worm arriving to Miami, in his butterfly new dress (on the upper left) after having undergone the metamorphosis that engenders the new land of opportunities and freedom, for many of them, an inverse geography of the Island of Cuba where that colorful bush of new life grows.
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deserved tribute to the victims of communism deceased in the Caribbean sea during =>
=> "the decade-lustrum of dazzling"
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