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Drawing on in-depth interviews with first-generation Cuban immigrants living in Miami-Dade County, Florida, this study explores the decadal variability of the Cuban exodus to inform preferential differences towards the U.S. embargo against Cuba within the Cuban immigrant community. It is found that after the collapse of Soviet-Union and Cuba relations in 1991, Cuba’s social, political, and economic, deterioration exacerbated, creating a division between pre-2000 and post-2000 Cuban immigrant cohorts in educational attainment, indoctrination into the Cuba’s sociopolitical system, repressive experiences in Cuba, and disposition to integrate in the U.S.,– factors all of which informed the post-2000 cohort sample’s preference for loosening sanctions or removing the embargo altogether. Other factors, such as pre-revolution socioeconomic origin, familial support for the revolution, transnational ties to Cuba, motivations to migrate, and U.S. political ideology/party affiliation are not as explanatory of difference in preferences among the cohorts. These findings offer insight on the transformation of preferences towards the embargo among the Cuban American community and illuminates how variability in ethnic interest group may influence the persistence of economic sanctions.

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