Still, despite all this rapid growth, incessant change, and unsettling population turnover, there certainly is a core city, and there certainly are long-time residents, many who proudly call themselves natives.
Despite the constant change and growth, there are still long-time residents who think of themselves as natives.
Another 200,000 abandoned Cuba as part of the Freedom Flights Program between 1965 and 1971, and 125,000 a good number of whom were said to be criminals followed in 1980, when Castro lifted travel restrictions from the port of Mariel (west of Havana).