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Marifeli Pérez-Stable, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of sociology in the Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University....
Antonio Maceo Brigade
The Antonio Maceo Brigade was a political organization in the mid-1970s composed of Cuban Americans that demanded the right of Cuban exiles to travel to Cuba and to establish good relations with the Cuban government.
The group was mainly composed of young Cuban Americans that had developed leftist sympathies from experiences in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement, and were generally critical of anti-Castro rhetoric. The group was invited to Cuba personally by Fidel Castro.
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The visit brought a brief period of warmer Cuba-United States relations and brought attention to the Cuban-American left.[1]
History
Foundation
See also: Dialoguero and Venceremos Brigade
The proposal for an entourage of Cuban exiles to visit Cuba was first raised at the Instituto de Estudios Cubanos in 1974 by Lourdes Casal.
Differing accounts would later exist as to how they got their name. One account says it was Casal's idea, while another claims t