OPERACION PEDRO PAN
THE CUBAN CHILDREN’S EXODUS

The Official Website of Operation Pedro Pan

From December 1960 to October 1962, more than fourteen thousand Cuban youths arrived alone in the United States. What is now known as Operation Pedro Pan was the largest recorded exodus of Unaccompanied minors in the Western Hemisphere.

“The world changed while I slept, and much to my surprise, no one had consulted me.”

Carlos Eire, Ph.D

Pedro Pan April 6, 1962, Age11