Cubans Are Leaving to Their Allies in the US

On May 1st, 1980, just a couple of weeks into the boatlift, Fidel Castro delivered a Mayday speech in Havana's Revolution Square before a crowd estimated it more than a million people. The official title of the speech was, Our Criminals Are Leaving To Their Allies in the US. In the speech, Castro made no reference to anyone actually leaving from prison. Instead he labeled the entire group of Mariel Cubans as Lupin, scum who lacked revolutionary blood and do not have the heart to adapt to the effort of heroism required by a revolution.