History

History was about to be made. The evidence was inside that home:  thousands of bolita tickets collected throughout multiple counties- enough to deliver a crippling financial blow to the Trafficante empire and, perhaps, finally a change that could stick to Santo Trafficante and put him in jail for a long time. The months-long investigation was about to come to fruition.

Since the town of Sancti Spiritus, Cuba is by the Yayabo River, some say the shirt was originally called the yayabera. Others say it was named for the tart fruit, the guava. Workers frequently wore the shirts as they ate their lunch in the shade of the guava trees. It even became the uniform of the resistance fighters in Cuba's struggle for independence from Spain. When people started moving to Florida from Cuba in the late 1880s, they brought the shirts with them.