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Operation Peter Pan (or Operación Pedro Pan) was a clandestine exodus of over 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban minors ages 6 to 18 to the United States over a two-year span from 1960 to 1962. They were sent by parents who feared, on the basis of unsubstantiated rumors, [1] that Fidel Castro and the Communist party were planning to terminate parental ...
Operación Pedro Pan. Polita Grau (born Maria Leopoldina Grau-Alsina 19 November 1915–22 March 2000) was the First Lady of Cuba, a Cuban political prisoner, and the "godmother" of Operation Peter Pan, also known as Operación Pedro Pan, a program to help children leave Cuba. Operation Peter Pan involved the Roman Catholic Church and Monsignor ...
Between November 1960 and October 1962, over 14,000 children were sent to the U.S. by their parents in Operation Peter Pan. These children were taken under the care of the Catholic Church and placed in foster homes throughout the U.S. until they could be reunited with their parents.
The Cuban Revolution was driven by the need for equality, particularly among these classes. Before the campaign, the rate of illiteracy among city dwellers was 11% compared to 41.7% in the countryside. [6] The Literacy Campaign was designed to force contact between sectors of society that would not usually interact.
Rosa de la Cruz championed the work of Ana Mendieta, a feminist Cuban-born artist who came to the United States through Operation Peter Pan. She was a rising star in the art world when she died ...
0-74321-965-1. OCLC. 50155574. Dewey Decimal. 972.9123063092. LC Class. E184.C97. Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy is a 2003 book by Carlos Eire and winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction. [1] The book is autobiographical, about the author's experiences as part of Operation Peter Pan.
In Havana, Operation Peter Pan was run by Ramon Grau Alsina (nephew of the former president Ramón Grau ), who was head of Catholic Welfare and a member of the Democratic Revolutionary Front (FRD), a counter-revolutionary organization linked to the CIA; his sister Leopoldina Grau Alsina; and James Baker, headmaster of the Ruston Academy in Havana.
The 1994 Cuban rafter crisis which is also known as the 1994 Cuban raft exodus or the Balsero crisis was the emigration of more than 35,069 Cubans to the United States (via makeshift rafts). [1] The exodus occurred over five weeks following rioting in Cuba; Fidel Castro announced in response that anyone who wished to leave the country could do ...