Click here for the whole story.Operation Pedro Pan, Cuban parents' agonizing decisions saved thousands
Forty years after Operation Pedro Pan ended, I was at Havana's Jose Martí International Airport after spending almost a month reporting from the communist island in 2002.As I waited for my plane back to Miami, I browsed the dinky airport's gift shop. There, behind the glass, was another example of the Cuban regime's Orwellian doublespeak in a glossy book that attempts to twist a life-saving, humanitarian program for thousands of Cuban children into a ''terrorist'' U.S. plot.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
The Herald on Peter Pan... and what it will take to bring post-dictatorship normalcy to Cuba
From The Miami Herald:
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