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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.
Freedom Flights (known in Spanish as Los vuelos de la libertad) transported Cubans to Miami twice daily, five times per week from 1965 to 1973. [1][2][3] Its budget was about $12 million and it brought an estimated 300,000 refugees, making it the "largest airborne refugee operation in American history." [1][4][5] The Freedom Flights were an ...
Fred Beato. Fred Beato revisits Miami's Freedom Tower, where he was accepted into America in 1962 at age 10. [1] Fred Beato (born 1952) is a Cuban-American musician known for being one of the participants of Operation Peter Pan, owner of Beato Bags and drummer of Beato Band with former Ambrosia singer David Pack.
Brito entered the United States by way of the mass exodus Operation Peter Pan, with her parents following in 1962. [1] [2] [3] Brito received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Florida International University (FIU) in 1978, and in 1979 obtained her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.
Angones came to the United States by way of the Operation Peter Pan when he was 11 years old. [4] [5] He later studied at Immaculata-Lasalle High School, graduating in 1968 and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Miami (B.A.) (1 972). He later graduated from the University of Miami School of Law in 1976.
Boxing for Cuba: An Immigrant’s Story of Despair, Endurance, and Redemption is the memoir of Guillermo (“Bill”) Vicente Vidal published by Ghost Road Press in November 2007. The book documents the Vidal family as they flee from Cuba in the 1960s and eventually establish a home in Colorado. After leaving Cuba in 1961 through Operation ...