Drinking In History With La Marielita Rum
Nearly 43 years ago, a mass immigration of Cubans travelled from Mariel Harbor near Havana to the United States, known as the Mariel Boatlift.\xa0
The exodus, which happened over several months, saw more than 125,000 Cubans make the journey across the Florida Straits.\xa0
One of those people was a six-year-old girl, Janet Diaz-Bonilla, who travelled with her parents towards a new life. But it was a journey that would impact not only Janet's life, but also, the fabric of her adopted homeland.\xa0
While many have looked back on these journeys to freedom through art writing, Janet, a writer herself, decided to tell her story through liquid, releasing La Marielita to rum at the end of last year.\xa0
To find out more, we talked to Janet about perception, legacy, and how liquid can really tell stories in a very new way.