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Operation Pedro Pan

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Lucy Ash finds out how, decades before the Elian Gonzalez custody battle, 14,000 Cuban children were separated from theirfamilies by the Cold War. As Castro took over, a CIA-inspired whispering campaign panicked parents into sending them to the US, with the "Pedro Pan" programme providing flights and visas. Now they are at the heart of Cuban-American Miami, where the mayor, the police chief, and salsa star Willy Chirino are all "Pedro Pan" children. Producer Polly Hope

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