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Quality her entire life. She shares about their personal relationship during on q a. Final years aided u. S. Government cuban parents in sending their children to the u. S. To escape the rise of the castro regime. Next on American History tv, author and professor Anita Casavantes Bradford discusses the legacy of the mission known as operation pedro pan. She explains the differing interpretations of the childrens exodus to the u. S. From cuba and how the 2000 custody battle over Elian Gonzalez reignited debate over operation pedro pan. After her talk, several audience members who came to the u. S. As part of the operation took part in the discussion. Florida International University hosted this 45minute event. [applause] thank you so much. Before i begin, i would like to ask if there are any pedro panists in the room. A special thank you for coming. I want to acknowledge pedro pan is not strictly or even primarily a topic for academic analysis and that you are the experts in this histor
Is not strictly or even primarily a topic for academic analysis and that you are the experts in this history. It is with that recognition that i will share a few thoughts with you today, but i do so with humility and appreciation for the opportunity to be with you today. Between the fall of 1960 and october of 1962, the parents of more than 14,000 cuban children made the heartbreaking decision to send their children alone to the United States where they were cared for by friends, relatives, foster parents, as well as in camps and orphanages. The reasons why parents did this were varied. Many feared for the spiritual wellbeing of their catholic children after an increasingly radicalized cuban revolution began to oppress religious expression, close schools, expel priests and religious orders from the island. Others feared growing interventions into family life and panicked after rumors that castro intended to deprive parents of Legal Authority over their children began to circulate. They
Brightest of cuba are found and apprehended and thrown into prison. Theres no open internet there. There arent any dictators in the world. China has written a book on how a dictatorship can control the internet with the great firewall of china and we have the situation that will replicate itself bigtime. Finally he would say this testimony from these unbelievably brave women and men who have suffered at the hands of castro helped steer off the veil of secrecy and an open secret if you will. Its been out there but thankfully its through cspan and maybe thats here and congressmen and women who will see this record you are bearing truth and bearing witness to a very ugly reality that is pervasive. Again i do believe the legitimacy that castro craves and i believe just got a helping hand thats not just might be. The Washington Post and others have aligned on that in their editorials. This was not the time to take that view. They shouldve been an effort to say human rights first. As you sai
Expression, close schools, expel priests and religious orders from the island. Others feared growing interventions into family life and panicked after rumors that castro intended to deprive parents of Legal Authority over their children began to circulate. Parents also sought to protect their children from communist indoctrination. Revolutionary schools. With the help of james baker, an American School headmaster in havana, the support of a Clandestine Group of anticastro cubans, in miami a young miami young irish immigrant priest, along with the support of the u. S. State department and most likely the Central Intelligence agency, cuban parents began spiriting their children off the island and into the care of the Catholic Church in the United States. They believed their separation would be temporary since few believed the United States would allow castros increasingly leftleaning revolution to survive. After the failure of the bay of pigs invasion in april 1961 and the october 1962 m