April 24, 2024

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Florida's quote of the day

| 2/8/2016

" Exile never goes away."

-- Carlos Eire, a history and religious studies professor at Yale University who has written about the Cuban revolution and exile experience

For 50 years Cuban exiles have dreamed of the day they would elect one of their own to be president of Cuba.

This year, they might actually see one elected — to be president of the United States.

Read more at the Miami Herald.

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