Operation "Pedro Pan"

Operation Pedro Pan was mainly about ...

• Families thought their kids had to scape the arrival of the communist drive into Cuba and due to such stress, they were sent to California to let go of worry.

• Cuban kids didn't feel like Fidel Castro should be in control of their lives, so they started an underground system where they could intercept notes and know what the government was planning for their families.

• Many parents thought their kids would be safer away from all the drastic governmental change happening in Cuba and from Fidel Castro, parents teamed up and got many kids away from Cuba into Miami keeping everything under wraps.

• A kid who lived in Cuba named Pedro saw the harm Fidel Castro was doing to his home and decided to make a stand. He formed protests against the misuse of power Fidel was making. He ended up getting almost all the kids he knew involved.

Where did the kids who didn't have family in their new living sites go once they arrived to their final destiny?

• They stayed at Catholic Church run orphanages

• They stayed with other families assigned by age

• They stayed at boarding schools.

• They were sadly sent back to Cuba

How long did Operation Pedro Pan last?

• For all Fidel Castro's regime (1959 - 2008)

• Until all children reached back to their families (1960 - 1970)

• As long as the program could be held (1960 - 1962)

• As far Cold War went (1947 - 1991)

What use does the word "diaspora" hold within the text?

• a situation in which many people are forced to stay in a place at the same time

• a situation in which many people are to leave a place at the same time

• a situation in which many people are attacked in a place at the same time

Resisting Castros Regime would mean for Cuba homeland citizens to....

• stop receiving the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) help that fueled Cuba

• to risk lives, to be in-prisoned and even jeopardize their children lives.

• to visit family members who were communists for protection

How many unaccompanied children left Cuba during the largest recorded child exodus in the Western Hemisphere?

• as many as 14,000 and more as the program lasted

• as the program lasted there were less than 9,000

• the program lasted for few years only saving 41,000

Why did parents send their children to the U.S.?

• To learn English, closer to capitalism and living the American Dream

• To relate to a more economically stable family

• To visit the Disney world attractions and have a real children life

• To live in a free country, away from the indoctrination of communism.

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) sent warnings into Cuba from via short-wave radio station, saying that ....

• the Cuban government was going to bring teachers from the Soviet Union to brainwash children.

• the Cuban government and it militia were going to be led by secret Soviet Union specialists.

• the Cuban government was going to send children to the Soviet Union to be brainwashed.

• the Cuban government was to be sponsored by the Soviet Union to recruit their children.

The program was called "Pedro Pan" and the name Pedro stands for...

• Pedro was the first kid who fled to the U.S. from Cuba on his own by the director of a charity foundation

• Pedro stands for "Peter" who relates to Disney's character Peter Pan who was also an orphan as the Cuban child Pedro

• Peter (English word for "Pedro") was the man who helped the first child from Cuba into the U.S. and receive donations for more children to be rescued from Cuba

Operation Pedro Pan children brought greater lives to some children, others were not that lucky as thousands of them were left stranded as ...

• they didn't have a flight back to go back to Cuba

• they were taken away by the costume office and sent back to Cuba

• they ended up in orphanages or, foster homes

• they were taken to board planes to the Soviet Union