Leaving Cuba: From Operation Pedro Pan to Elian by Kathlyn Gay

Author:Kathlyn Gay [Gay, Kathlyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Cuban Americans, Juvenile Nonfiction, Sociology, Social Science, Refugee Children, Cuba, Refugees, Central & South America, Refugee Children - United States, General, United States, Caribbean & Latin America, Refugee Children - Services for - United States, Social Issues, Hispanic & Latino, Services For, Refugee Children - Cuba, Juvenile Literature, People & Places, History
ISBN: 9780761314660
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books

President Jimmy Carter, however, wanted to improve relations with Cuba, and after he took office in 1977 he frequently advocated peaceful negotiations

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between the two countries. Dozens of militant Cuban exile groups vehemently opposed Carter's policies, although a number of other exiles supported them. Among the supporters was a group of young exiles known as the Antonio Maceo Brigade who traveled to Cuba to observe the revolution in action; for three weeks in December 1977, they worked on a housing project, inspected factories and schools, and visited relatives. When they returned to the United States, the exile press denounced them as traitors in the war for Cuba's freedom and called them agents of the Castro regime 10 The brigade was accused of filing reports with the Cuban government on Eliseo Alberto, son of a well-known Cuban poet. Even though both men supported the revolution, the government security officials coerced Alberto to spy on his own father.

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