Mario Petrirena
name: label: Collection Interviewer
content: Velasquez, Steve
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content: Exiles in America: Cuban Pedro Pans and Balseros Collection
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content: Exiles in America: Cuban Pedro Pans and Balseros Collection / Series 1: Oral History Interviews
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content: 2015 January 26
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content: Item AC1377-BDA0008
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Audio
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content: Mario Petrirena was born in Union de Reyes, Cuba on November 19, 1953. In 1962 Mario was sent to Florida along with his 2 sisters. After 8 months, the family got reunited and settled in Miami. They later moved to Belle Glade and then to West Palm. Mario became an artist and later moved to Atlanta, where he still resides with his wife.