Operation Peter Pan (or Operación Pedro Pan) was a clandestine mass exodus of over 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban minors ages 6 to 18 to the United States over a two-year span from 1960 to 1962. They were sent by their parents who were alarmed by rumors circulating amongst Cuban families that the new government under Fidel Castro was planning to terminate parental rights, and place minors in communist indoctrination centers. HERE
Support among Cubans in South Florida for Republicans has been slowly declining. They've chalked it up to generational change. Younger and newly arrived Cubans aren't quite as strongly Republican as the original exiles. The GOP's shift to the socially conservative positions of white evangelical voters has accelerated the trend. Then along comes Donald Trump.here
Rubio called Obama’s historic trip to Cuba “one of the most disgraceful trips ever taken by a U.S. president anywhere in the world.” ---------- "Mr. Rubio, we have tried it your way for over 50 years. All it has done is make the Cuban people suffer. The change you were looking for did not happen. It should be up to the Cubans on the island to decide how they want to be governed not the deserters in Miami. Dialogue over Isolation works everytime. Now we have a chance to show them what Democracy looks like." YCS