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Fleeing Castro - Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban Children's Program (Paperback)
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Fleeing Castro - Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban Children's Program (Paperback)
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"The first complete and comprehensive work on these important,
unique programs. . . . An interesting, humane, yet tragic component
of the post-1959 Cuban experience and the Cold War in
general."--Antonio Benitez-Rojo, Amherst College "The ordeal began
[for the children] when their parents told them they had to travel
alone and that they had to keep the upcoming trip a secret. The
most powerful parts of the book are their accounts. . . . Through
interviews with many of the participants-the children and their
parents, the coordinators of the airlift, those in the underground
in Cuba and the Catholic sponsors in the United States-Triay
attempts to answer many of the questions the exodus raised."--Miami
Herald A stirring account of the covert effort to smuggle Cuban
children into the United States in the aftermath of Fidel Castro's
rise to power, Fleeing Castro brings to light the humanitarian
program designed to care for the children once they arrived and the
hardship and suffering endured by the families who took part in
Operation Pedro Pan. 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 effort by James Baker, headmaster of an American
school in Cuba who worked closely with the anti-Castro underground,
Pedro Pan quickly came to involve the Catholic Church in Miami and,
in particular, Father Bryan Walsh, who established the Cuban
Children's Program, the nationwide organization that cared for
those children without relatives or friends in the United
States--almost half of them. The latter program, in effect until
1981, was the first to allot federal money to private agencies for
child care, an action with far-reaching repercussions for U.S.
social policy. Victor Andres Triay traces this story from its
political and social origins in Cuba, setting it in the context of
the Cold War and describing the roles of the organizations involved
in Cuba and in the United States. Making use of extensive
interviews with Baker, Walsh, and influential underground figures,
as well as personal letters that document the fears and dreams of
both the parents and the children, Triay presents this history of
Pedro Pan--the largest child refugee movement ever in the Western
Hemisphere--with the drama of an international thriller and the
pathos of a heartbreaking family drama.
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