Ybor City
McNamara, Sarah![Ybor City](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/374/37450218/CHSBZCOP0337450218.jpg)
When we think about the origins of Latina/o Florida, we often imagine Cuban immigrants who fled the regime of Fidel Castro. But decades before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men from prerevolutionary Cuba crossed the Florida Straits, made Ybor City the global capital of the Cuban cigar industry, and established the foundation of latinidad in the sunshine state. Located on the eastern edge of the Gu...