Popular Culture
The Mariel boatlift was the subject of a 1981 PBS documentary film Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Fictional depictions include Scarface (1983), The Perez Family (1995), and Before Night Falls (2000). In the pilot episode of the television series Miami Vice ("Brothers Keeper",1984), the villain's right hand man, Trini De Soto, mentions he was in detention with other "Marielito riffraff".
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