Cesar Ramirez
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: 2014 August 22
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content: Item AC1377-BDA0010
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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: Cesar Ramírez was born on July 14, 1962 in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. In 1994, at the age of 32, Cesar along with 5 other fellow balseros left the island. Four days later, they were rescued by the US National Coast Guard and were taken to Campamento La India Camp in Guantánamo Bay Base. After a month living at the camp, he was taken to Howard Base in Panama. Cesar stayed in the base for three months and dedicated his time to organizing artistic activities for refugees. In 1994 he was issued a humanitarian visa that allowed him to travel to Florida, where he received urgent medical care. On January 1995, Cesar moved to Las Vegas. Eventually Cesar moved back to Florida, where he still resides.