Exiliada: A Refugee's Story Journey of a Pedro Pan

On the night of December 31, 1958, Fidel Castro and his band of revolutionaries crossed the mountains of the Sierra Maestra and overthrew the government of military dictator Fulgencio Batista. Four years later, Castro's oppressive communist agenda forced many desperate parents to secretly send their children out of the country.

Between 1960 and 1962, more than 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban minors flew from Havana to Miami under the sponsorship of the Catholic Welfare Bureau in Miami. These chil...