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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.
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 Bryan O. Walsh from ...
Operation Peter Pan; Freedom Flights; Mariel boatlift; 1994 Cuban rafter crisis; ... The Cuban exodus is the mass emigration of Cubans from the island of Cuba after ...
The new work refers to the experiences of those who were part of Operation Peter Pan, when 14,000 Cuban children came to the USA. Sarasota Contemporary Dance taps Cuban American history for world ...
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 ...
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 .
Alonso, who came to the U.S. from Cuba through Operation Peter Pan, has never had contact with the criminal justice system, the attorney said. He doesn’t drink — and wasn’t drinking on Saturday.
The US responded to Cuban relaxation of restrictions on emigration by allowing Cuban-Americans to send up to $500 to an emigrating relative (equal to $2,400 in 2023). [ 5 ] In November 1978, Castro's government met in Havana with a group of Cubans living in exile, agreed to grant an amnesty to 3,600 political prisoners, and announced that they ...