Operation Peter Pan
1960–62 evacuation of Cuban children to the US
Operation Peter Pan
Operation Peter Pan (Spanish: Operación Pedro Pan) was a politicized 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. They were sent by parents who feared Fidel Castro and the Communist Party were planning to terminate parents' legal custody (or "patria potestad", in Spanish) of their children, and place minors in rumored communist indoctrination centers. No such actions by the Castro regime ever took place, but the rumors were fueled by actions such as Castro taking over control of private schooling in 1961. The program consisted of two main components: the mass transportation of Cuban children via airplane to the United States – Miami as a particularly common hub – and the programs set up to care for them once they arrived. Both were led by Father Bryan O. Walsh of the Catholic Welfare Bureau. The operation was the largest exodus of minor refugees in the Western Hemisphere at the time. The evacuations were operated...
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