Fleeing Castro: Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban Children's Program
Description
From late 1960 until the October 1962 missile crisis, 14,048 unaccompanied Cuban children left their homeland, the small island suddenly at the center of the Cold War struggle. Their parents, unable to obtain visas to leave Cuba, believed a short separation would be preferable to subjecting their offspring to Castro's totalitarian Marxist state. For the children, the exodus began a prolonged and tragic ordeal -- some didn't see their parents again for years: a few never did. Until now, this chapter of the Cuban Revolution has been relatively obscure. Initially the result of an eff...
ISBN(s)
0813017246, 9780813017242
