Mexican immigration to Cuba
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Total population | |
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2,752 (2010) Mexicans of European descent, Indigenous peoples of Mexico, Mestizos in Mexico |
Mexican immigration to Cuba comprises people who emigrated from Mexico to Cuba and their descendants. Cuba is home to the most Mexicans living in the Caribbean. The waves of migration from Mexico to Cuba started from the 1970s, attracted by a mild climate.
The resident embassy of Mexico reported 2,752 Mexican citizens in Cuba in 2010, but estimates approximately 4,000 Mexican citizens crossing into the neighboring country for educational, business, commercial, industrial and tourist activities. The Mexican community has been primarily established in the city of Havana.
Many people from Yucatán, Campeche, Quintana Roo, Veracruz, Jalisco, and Tamaulipas share ties of familiarity with Cubans following the
History
The Mayans were separated from their work during the eighteenth century, and they surreptitiously left with fugitive status prosecuted by the local authority.[3] On the other hand, there were inherited debts, so that the children had to pay what the father could not have covered. This created a pattern, perpetuating dependence on the family. As the father came close to paying off his debt, the landowner was allowed to trade with their workers, establishing the slave market in Cuba.[4]
Thus, entire families formed indigenous human chains moved in from the mainland to the island. Under these conditions they lived and suffered, especially many Yucatán Mayans in the mid-nineteenth century.[5][6] Most were brought to Havana but others were brought to Cuba as farmers of sisal, sugarcane, and fodder in the provinces of Pinar del Río, Matanzas and Camagüey.
A colonel in the Mexican army who reached the stars of Major General in the Ten Years' War, José Inclán Riasco, a native of Mexico City, was shot in Port-au-Prince in 1872. Another Mexican, Gabriel Gonzalez, was a Brigadier General in the Great War.[7]
Mexican communities
Yucatecans
The
The majority of the
Statistics
Census Year | Mexican residents |
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2000 | 520 |
2005 | 826 |
2010 | 2,752 |
See also
- Cuban immigration to Mexico
- Cuba–Mexico relations
References
- ^ Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior 2010 Archived 25 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Mexicanos residentes en CUBA 2020" (PDF) (in Spanish).
- ISBN 978-0-8130-6593-9.
- ^ Carlos R. Menéndez, "Historia del infame comercio de indios en Yucatán", 1922, Mérida, Yucatán
- ^ John Kenneth Turner, México Bárbaro, 1965, Costa Amic editores, México, D.F.
- ^ Nelson Reed, The Caste War of Yucatan, Stanford University Press, 1964
- ^ "Mexicanos en Cuba y cubanos en México". Cuadernos de Historia de la Salud Pública (in Spanish) (95). June 2004.
- ISBN 978-1-4696-0712-2.