Camarioca Boatlift, 1965

Item Information

• Description
  From October to November 1965, Cuban citizens were permitted to leave Cuba by sea through the port of Camarioca. Approximately 3,000 left in this way and were assisted at sea by the U.S. Coast Guard. Cuba and the United States negotiated an end to the dangerous sea exodus by opening regular “Freedom Flights” for those wishing to leave. The flights continued until 1975.

• Item ID
  csmep03001
• Source Collection
  Caribbean Sea Migration Collection, 1959-2003
• Title
  Camarioca Boatlift, 1965
• Provenance
  Received by the Rubenstein Library as a gift from the USCG Historian's Office
• Date
  1965
• Extent
  2 scans
• Contributor
  United States. Coast Guard
• Folder
  USCG Historian's Office, photograph from Camarioca Boatlift, Cuban, 1965
• Box Number
  Box 3
• Type
  Image
  Still Image
  photographs
• Subject
  United States. Coast Guard
  Cubans

• Copyright & Usage
  None