Jose Azel travelled across the Florida Strait to Miami in 1961. The then 13-year-old Cuban was one of 14,000 Cuban children who left their home country as part of mass refugee movement Operation Pedro ...

MIAMI—José Azel left Cuba in 1961 on a cargo ship with a group of children and Catholic seminarians when he was 13. His father, in sending his son away alone, thought it would be for just a few months ...

It was 1878, and Cubans had been fighting for independence against the Spanish colonial forces for almost years. Exhausted by the long struggle and frustrated by the rivalries among the rebel leaders, ...

VOXXI correspondent Diego Rosette sat down with Cuban exile scholar, Jose Azel currently a senior scholar at the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami to discuss ...

WASHINGTON -- Cuba's surprise decision to make it easier for citizens to leave the country doesn't mean Cubans can book tickets on commercial planes and head for Miami. Would-be immigrants and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cuba's surprise decision to make it easier for citizens to leave the country doesn't mean Cubans can book tickets on commercial planes and head for Miami. Would-be immigrants and ...

Imagine leaving your home country behind to start over in the United States. For many, that means one word: freedom. “I look at the building as, symbolically, of a whole nation of people that chose to ...