Resources

For more information about the Cuban rafter crisis, please consult the following resources:

Archival Collections at the Cuban Heritage Collection:

Brothers to the Rescue Records

Centros Varela Papers, 1994-1996 

Guantánamo Bay Naval Base Collection

Dora Plavetic Collection, 1994

Oral History Interviews:

Guarioné Díaz: Founder of the Cuban American National Council and Ombudsman for the General at Guantánamo Naval Base during the Cuban rafter crisis of 1994

​Siro del Castillo: Human rights advocate and Assistant to the Ombudsman for the General at Guantánamo Naval Base during the Cuban rafter crisis of 1994

Websites: 

Guantánamo Public Memory Project

Selected Bibliography:

*Guerra, Felicia, and Tamara Alvarez-Detrell. 1997. Balseros, historia oral del éxodo cubano del '94. Miami, Fla: Ediciones Universal.

Mesa-Lago, Carmelo. 1995. Cuba's raft exodus of 1994: causes, settlement, effects, and future. Coral Gables, Fla: North-South Center, University of Miami.

Reynolds, Nicholas E. 2003. A skillful show of strength: U.S. Marines in the Caribbean, 1991-1996. Washington, D.C.: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps.

*Source of Cuban rafters’ quotes used throughout the exhibit.