Operation Peter Pan: Flying Back to Cuba

Overview

Between 1960 and 1962 more than 14,000 cuban children were sent alone by their parents to the USA. This clandestine operation -with the participation of the CIA and the Catholic Church- became known as ""Operation Peter Pan"". Many of the parents had expected to follow their children, who had been granted visa waivers by the US government, but the Missile Crisis terminated the flights between the two countries and the children found themselves stranded in the USA. In 2009, for the first time a group of the Peter Pan children, now adults visited Cuba to give ""closure and make peace with the land where they were born"".

Details

Status

Released

Release date

June 24, 2011

Original language

Spanish

Production

Bravo Film

Director

Estela Bravo

Writer

Estela Bravo

Producer

Claudia Calviño,Diane Boehme,Estela Bravo,Inti Herrera

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt2220152