Exilio El Diario de la Marina is one of the oldest Cuban newspapers and has continued as an exile newspaper with its publication in Miami. The project focuses on the 14 years between 1947 and 1961, concentrating on the events leading to the Cuban Revolution and immediately afterwards. The project consists of scanning the newspaper images, creating an index with selective abstracts, and producing a CD-ROM product. The criteria for the abstracts is based on the social, economic, and political events that led to the Cuban Revolution. Librarians established a list of controlled keywords to further enhance searching capabilities.
Abstracts are available in Spanish and English.
They are created by graduate students with backgrounds in Latin American Studies. The task of producing and translating the abstracts is an extremely labor intensive effort and would not be possible without this graduate student support.