Lost Boy
Christine Neulieb September 26, 2011 - 12:24pm
Learning to Die in Miami
Confessions of a Refugee Boy
Carlos Eire
Free Press, $26, 320 pp.
On January 1, 1959, President Fulgencio Baptista fled Cuba, ousted by the guerrilla campaign of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Six weeks later, Castro was sworn in as “Prime Minister.” In response to this Communist victory at the height of the Cold War, the United States initiated massive airlifts of Cuban children to Miami, placing them with relatives or sometimes housing them in makeshift camps. Sponsored by the U.S. government and coordinated in part by the Archdiocese of Miami, the...
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