Even as her home country of Cuba crumbled around her, Elsa resisted joining the growing US-bound exodus until she felt she had no options left.- 'A substantial loss' -
Other historic migration waves included the so-called Mariel boatlift in which about 130,000 left Cuba as refugees in the 1980s, and the 35,000-odd who fled in a "raft exodus" in 1994.
Cuba registers record migration levels of over 500,000 people leaving in past two years due to economic crisis, the largest exodus since the 1959 revolution.
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