Fleeing Castro: Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban Children's

Fleeing Castro: Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban Children's Program

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 the entire group. 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.

Country	USA
Author	Victor Andres Triay
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: University Press of Florida
EAN	9780813017242
Edition	1st
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	0813017246
Label	University Press of Florida
Manufacturer	University Press of Florida
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	144
PublicationDate	1999-08-30
Publisher	University Press of Florida
Studio	University Press of Florida
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Fleeing Castro: Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban Children's Program