From 1960 to 1962, 14,048 Cuban minors arrived in Miami. Maria de los Angeles Torres was six years old when she took part in this massive airlift-now known as Operation Pedro Pan-in which parents, terrified that the new communist government would ship their children to Soviet work camps, sent them instead to America. Torres examines the event from both a historical and a personal perspective. This 'relentless investigator of history' (Miami Herald) forces declassification of key documents, challenging us all finally to come to terms with this pivotal yet largely neglected exodus.
From 1960 to 1962, 14,048 Cuban minors arrived in Miami. Maria de los Angeles Torres was six years old when she took part in this massive airlift-now ...
Frank Bonilla Edwin Melendez Maria de Los Angeles Torres
Latinos in the United States have emerged as strategic actors in major processes of social transformation. This work describes the structural processes and interventions inside and outside US Latino communities. It includes a context-setting introduction, with a focus on four themes, including forms of global and transnational interdependence.
Latinos in the United States have emerged as strategic actors in major processes of social transformation. This work describes the structural processe...
In this moving account of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath, eleven women who lived through it as children or young adults recall the events of the last forty years. In Torres' words, 'This book, which began in Miami, looking toward the island, ends on the island as it gazes toward the exile community.' These poets, artists and scholars represent each post-revolution exile generation. Some left Cuba in the Peter Pan airlift, some left afterward, some never left at all. Others like the editor left as children only to return and leave again, disillusioned with both the exile community and...
In this moving account of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath, eleven women who lived through it as children or young adults recall the events of t...
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Este libro es una plataforma de mis experiencias en los 20 anos que he llevado canalizando -Angeles- y ayudando a otros a encontrar su -Contacto con s...
