People Leaving Cuba (Real)

Sorry about that. Anyway, it all started on accident when two Peruvian guards shot each other. It caused a major commotion and Fidel Castro was basically like "they can handle it themselves" and didn't even send police over. People then flooded the embassy asking for asylum. Fidel then said that anybody who wanted to leave could leave. The Cubans in key west took advantage of this and sent a huge number of boats over to the coast near Havana. An insane number of people left over the course of around 6 months (I don't remember the exact number but it was around 125,000 which was like 2% of their population at the time). That's a lot.