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.

Jul 11, 2017 · But one story that is not often told is that of the thousands of unaccompanied children who were sent from Cuba to Miami in the early 1960s, as part of a U.S. government program called Operation Pedro Pan.

Apr 29, 2019 · During Operation Peter Pan, over 14,000 children became exiles with the help of the United States. “What are you doing here?” The social worker peered at Carlos Eire, shocked to find the...

Nov 19, 2011 · Operation Pedro Pan shaped the lives of a generation of Cuban-Americans. Between 1960 and 1962, the program airlifted more than 14,000 Cuban children from Havana to the U.S. Fifty...

Jan 6, 2021 · Operation Peter Pan: Over 14,000 Cuban children saved from Castro’s dictatorship. The author, one of the girls sent to the U.S. in Operation Peter Pan, shares her perspective about the largest exodus of minors in the history of the Western Hemisphere. By Ileana Fuentes. Originally published in Spanish on December 26, 2020 in CubaNet News.

Oct 18, 2022 · Between 1960 and 1962, some 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban children were evacuated to the United States in an airlift dubbed Operation Pedro Pan. Some of them were never reunited with their families.

Feb 7, 2022 · For two years in the 1960s, Operation Pedro Pan, also known as Operation Peter Pan, resulted in thousands of Cuban children being relocated to the United States. With the help of the Catholic Welfare Bureau and the U.S. State Department, Cuban parents were able to send their children off in the hopes of finding a better future.

Operation Peter Pan (or Operación Pedro Pan) was a mass exodus of over 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban minors to the United States between 1960 and 1962. Father Bryan O. Walsh of the Catholic Welfare Bureau created the program to provide air transportation to the United States for Cuban children.

Feb 7, 2025 · From 1960 to 1962, over 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban children left their homeland in what became the largest recorded unaccompanied child refugee exodus in the Western Hemisphere, later popularly known as "Operation Pedro Pan."

From December 1960 to October 1962, more than fourteen thousand Cuban youths arrived alone in the United States. What is now known as Operation Pedro Pan was the largest recorded exodus of Unaccompanied minors in the Western Hemisphere.