{"id":329326,"date":"2025-10-07T07:28:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T11:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=329326"},"modified":"2025-10-07T07:28:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T11:28:01","slug":"hialeah-a-cuba-that-breathes-in-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/hialeah-a-cuba-that-breathes-in-south-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Hialeah: a Cuba that breathes in South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">When I arrived in Hialeah, I had the feeling I hadn\u2019t left Cuba. The same Spanish spoken in the streets as in the island\u2019s neighborhoods. There are no English translations on the shop signs; nor are there any travel agencies advertising packages and tickets to Havana in neon letters, nor are there any clothing stores or specialty stores, where the music of Los Van Van or Willy Chirino blares.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hailai-8-1366x909.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1366\" height=\"909\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hailai-19-1366x876.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1366\" height=\"876\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hailai-12-1366x909.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1366\" height=\"909\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hailai-6-1366x909.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1366\" height=\"909\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hialeah must be one of the very few places in the United States where you don\u2019t need to speak English. Unlike other areas of Miami, where they first greet you in English and then, upon recognizing your accent, switch to Spanish, here the entry language is directly our own. English appears only in the occasional stray expression, almost like a compass reminding us we\u2019re in the north.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It happened to me at the famous Palacio de los Jugos, where signs offer mamey, mango and guava smoothies, yuca with mojo sauce, malanga fritters, and chicharrones, as if it were a farmers\u2019 market in Centro Habana. Or at the famous \u201c\u00d1ooo qu\u00e9 barato\u201d store, known as the \u201cCuban Walmart\u201d because there you can find everything for Cuban families on the other side of the pond. There\u2019s no trace of American sobriety: everything is color, noise, excess, that way of being in the world that we Cubans carry with us even when we cross borders.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hailai-16-1366x909.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1366\" height=\"909\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hailai-2-1366x909.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1366\" height=\"909\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hailai-9-1366x909.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1366\" height=\"909\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hailai-20-1366x1040.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1366\" height=\"1040\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hailai-7-1366x786.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1366\" height=\"786\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">To my ear, \u201cHialeah\u201d was a familiar name before I ever set foot there. As a child in Cuba, I heard it from neighbors, friends or relatives returning from the United States. Many claimed to live there. It was like a word that brought news from across the ocean, laden with dreams of migration.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This is no coincidence. According to the latest census, 96.3% of its inhabitants identify as Hispanic or Latino, and more than 75% are of Cuban origin. That\u2019s why some U.S. media outlets dubbed it \u201cthe least diverse city in the country.\u201d The phrase seems contradictory, because what one breathes here is precisely Latin American cultural diversity, but it\u2019s true that Cuban predominates, almost erasing any other trace.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hailai-11-1366x946.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1366\" height=\"946\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Founded in 1925, Hialeah began with just 1,500 inhabitants and a name of indigenous origin that means \u201cGreat Prairie.\u201d This image of open, green lands contrasts with the city today, which has become an industrial and working-class hub with more than 230,000 residents.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">History has held moments of singular significance for Hialeah: from the departure of aviator <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cuba\/sociedad-cuba\/historia\/amelia-earhart-una-promesa-del-cielo-en-la-habana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Amelia Earhart<\/span><\/b><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> in 1937, in her attempt to circumnavigate the world, to the filming of scenes from <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Godfather Part II<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> at its racetrack in 1974. Even its flamingos \u2014 the city\u2019s symbol \u2014 arrived from Cuba in 1934 and eventually became its official emblem.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hailai-13-1366x977.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1366\" height=\"977\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">But what truly transformed Hialeah was the wave of Cuban migration. Beginning in the 1960s, following the triumph of the Revolution, thousands of my compatriots settled in this corner of Florida. Then, in the 1980s, those who arrived with the Mariel boatlift joined them, and in the 1990s, those who arrived during the \u201crafter crisis.\u201d Many chose Hialeah because they already had family or friends in the area, and because here they could speak, work and survive without giving up their culture or learning English.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">That\u2019s why the city adopted the motto \u201cThe City That Progresses.\u201d And yes, it progressed, but it did so in its own way: based on the efforts of workers, Latino-controlled textile factories, clothing and mechanics workshops where Cuban and Central American labor sustains the local economy. Hialeah is, at its core, a working-class city.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 916px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hailai-18-916x1366.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"916\" height=\"1366\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It\u2019s tempting to describe it as a \u201clittle Cuba\u201d in exile. But the city is more than that: it\u2019s a laboratory of identities, a space where what it means to be Cuban, Latino and American at the same time is negotiated every day.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hailai-21-1366x921.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1366\" height=\"921\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Some see this cultural homogeneity as a limitation; others, a strength. It\u2019s paradoxical: on the one hand, it represents the continuity of Cuba beyond its borders; on the other, it proves that migration is also a way of founding cities, of redefining spaces beyond borders.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A laboratory of identities, a space where what it means to be Cuban, Latino and American at the same time is negotiated every day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3262,"featured_media":329330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13944],"tags":[18688,19256,34916],"ppma_author":[33930],"class_list":["post-329326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cuba-usa","tag-cubans-in-us","tag-featured","tag-hialeah"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hialeah: a Cuba that breathes in South Florida | OnCubaNews English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When I arrived in Hialeah, I had the feeling I hadn\u2019t left Cuba. 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