"Do you remember the Mariel boatlift?" asks playwright Rogelio Martinez over a bowl of tomato bisque on a damp Tuesday. "That was me." At the time of the mass exodus of Cubans from the port of Mariel in Cuba in 1980, Martinez was 9 years old and an only child. His father didn't make it out. "I...
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 07:00AM on January 25, 2018