Operation Pedro Pan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Operation Pedro Pan write by Yvonne Conde. This book was released on 2002-05-03. Operation Pedro Pan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Operation Pedro Pan and the Exodus of Cuba's Children
Operation Pedro Pan and the Exodus of Cuba's Children - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Operation Pedro Pan and the Exodus of Cuba's Children write by Deborah Shnookal. This book was released on 2022-06-28. Operation Pedro Pan and the Exodus of Cuba's Children available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This in-depth examination of one of the most controversial episodes in U.S.-Cuba relations sheds new light on the program that airlifted 14,000 unaccompanied children to the United States in the wake of the Cuban Revolution. Operation Pedro Pan is often remembered within the U.S. as an urgent "rescue" mission, but Deborah Shnookal points out that a multitude of complex factors drove the exodus, including Cold War propaganda and the Catholic Church's opposition to the island's new government. Shnookal illustrates how and why Cold War scare tactics were so effective in setting the airlift in motion, focusing on their context: the rapid and profound social changes unleashed by the 1959 Revolution, including the mobilization of 100,000 Cuban teenagers in the 1961 national literacy campaign. Other reforms made by the revolutionary government affected women, education, religious schools, and relations within the family and between the races. Shnookal exposes how, in its effort to undermine support for the revolution, the U.S. government manipulated the aspirations and insecurities of more affluent Cubans. She traces the parallel stories of the young "Pedro Pans" separated from their families--in some cases indefinitely--in what is often regarded in Cuba as a mass "kidnapping" and the children who stayed and joined the literacy brigades. These divergent journeys reveal many underlying issues in the historically fraught relationship between the U.S. and Cuba and much about the profound social revolution that took place on the island after 1959.
Fleeing Castro
Fleeing Castro - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fleeing Castro write by Victor Andres Triay. This book was released on 1999-08. Fleeing Castro available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An account of the covert effort to smuggle Cuban children into the USA in the aftermath of Fidel Castro's rise to power, this book focuses on the humanitarian programme designed to care for children once they arrived and the hardship and suffering endured by the families.
The Red Umbrella
The Red Umbrella - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Red Umbrella write by Christina Diaz Gonzalez. This book was released on 2011-12-13. The Red Umbrella available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Red Umbrella is a moving tale of a 14-year-old girl's journey from Cuba to America as part of Operation Pedro Pan—an organized exodus of more than 14,000 unaccompanied children, whose parents sent them away to escape Fidel Castro's revolution. In 1961, two years after the Communist revolution, Lucía Álvarez still leads a carefree life, dreaming of parties and her first crush. But when the soldiers come to her sleepy Cuban town, everything begins to change. Freedoms are stripped away. Neighbors disappear. And soon, Lucía's parents make the heart-wrenching decision to send her and her little brother to the United States—on their own. Suddenly plunked down in Nebraska with well-meaning strangers, Lucía struggles to adapt to a new country, a new language, a new way of life. But what of her old life? Will she ever see her home or her parents again? And if she does, will she still be the same girl? The Red Umbrella is a touching story of country, culture, family, and the true meaning of home. “Captures the fervor, uncertainty and fear of the times. . . . Compelling.” –The Washington Post “Gonzalez deals effectively with separation, culture shock, homesickness, uncertainty and identity as she captures what is also a grand adventure.” –San Francisco Chronicle
90 Miles to Havana
90 Miles to Havana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 90 Miles to Havana write by Enrique Flores-Galbis. This book was released on 2010-08-03. 90 Miles to Havana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Julian's parents make the heartbreaking decision to send him and his two brothers away from Cuba to Miami via the Pedro Pan operation, the boys are thrust into a new world where bullies run rampant and it's not always clear how best to protect themselves. 90 Miles to Havana is a 2011 Pura Belpre Honor Book for Narrative and a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
