Notable Marielitos
Notable Mariel boatlift refugees ("Marielitos") include:
- Writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Mirta Ojito
- Opera singer Elizabeth Caballero
- The Real World star Pedro Zamora
- Rapper and songwriter Cuban Link
- Actor and soap opera star Rene Lavan
- Julio González, arsonist and mass-murderer
- Cuban reggae band Arawak Jah
- Poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas
- Pedro Medina, executed for the 1982 stabbing of Dorothy James in Florida
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