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Operation Pedro Pan Group, official site "Children of Cuba Remember their Flight to America", NPR "Cuban Refugee Children" by Monsignor Bryan O. Walsh; Pedro Pan Network, hosted by the Miami Herald "Cuban Kids in Exile: Pawns of Cold War Politics", Chicago Sun-Times, 24 August 2003, review of Maria de los Angeles Torres' The Lost Apple
Polita was engaged in attempts that were unsuccessful against the life of Fidel Castro which included Operation Peter Pan. In 1961 it was the year where Polita Grau first caught the attention of the Operation when a group of women possibly sent by Penny Powers had gone towards her brother's involvement in Operation Pedro Pan. [7]
On June 3, 1962, aged 16, Perez migrated to Miami as part of "Operation Pedro Pan" during which thousands of Cuban children left their homeland. After having worked at various jobs available to immigrants (delivering newspapers, cutting grass, selling doughnuts on street corners, picking tomatoes, etc.), Perez attended Miami Edison Senior High ...
A group of Democrats, former Pedro Pan kids and immigration advocates slammed Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez on Wednesday morning over comments she made last month over recently arrived Cuban migrants ...
At 16, he migrated to Miami without his parents, as part of Operation Pedro Pan. That program had brought Cuban children to the United States after Fidel Castro’s takeover.
Operation Pedro Pan Group, Inc., a non-profit charitable organization founded in 1991 by the former children of Pedro Pan Opponents Points per game , in sports statistics Osteoporosis-pseudoglioma syndrome , a medical condition
The airline played a key role in Operation Pedro Pan, which brought young Cubans to Miami . The plane also used to deliver the Miami Herald’s Latin America edition to the region. Both were ...
Also notably, in 1963, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Marquette decided to host a group of child refugees from Cuba as a part of Operation Pedro Pan. [3] The orphanage provided care to hundreds of children from its opening in 1915 until its closure in 1965.