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Freedom Flights
Part of the Cuban exodus
Cuban refugees exiting a Freedom Flight in Miami.
Date
1965 – 1973
Location
Cuba
United States
Cause
Dangers of the Camarioca boatlift
Budget
$12,000,000
Organised by
Government of Cuba Government of the United States
Participants
300,000 Cuban refugees
Outcome
Cuban refugees arrive in the United States
Solidification of Little Havana
"Brain drain" in Cuba
Freedom Flights (known in Spanish as Los vuelos de la libertad) transported Cubans to Miami twice daily, five times per week from 1965 to 1973.[1][2][3] Its budget was about $12 million and it brought an estimated 300,000 refugees, making it the "largest airborne refugee operation in American history."[1][4][5] The Freedom Flights were an important and unusual chapter of cooperation in the history of Cuban-American foreign relations, which is otherwise characterized by mutual distrust. The program changed the ethnic makeup of Miami and fueled the growth of the Cuban-American enclave there.
^ abAnton, Alex; Hernandez, Roger (2002). Cubans in America. New York: Kensington Books.
^Philipson, Lorrin; Llerena, Rafael (1980). Freedom Flights. New York: Random House. ISBN 9780394511054.
^"Cuba Refugees Land in US; First Since May". Los Angeles Times. Miami, FL. December 12, 1972.
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grandmother Yeya. She and my mother came to Florida from Cuba during the FreedomFlights in the early 1960s with only a suitcase and no money."). Frost's biological...
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