Cuban natives Estela and Arturo Bueno met and married after they were brought to the United States as teens by Operation Pedro Pan, a U.S.-sponsored move used by parents who feared what communism would do to their children. Here, the Buenos are shown in Los Angeles in 1969 when they were dating. They now oppose any U.S. ties with Cuba.
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Arturo Bueno, 8 years old in Camagüey, Cuba, in 1953. Now 69, he arrived in the United States at age 16 as part of Operation Pedro Pan, which airlifted 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban children from the communist isle.
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Arturo Bueno in Miami in 1961. He was 16 years old.
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Estela Bueno in Camagüey, Cuba, in 1960, when she was 14. It was a year after Fidel Castro successfully led a revolution on the island. Operation Pedro Pan brought her to the United States when she was 15.
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Estela Bueno at Belmont High School in Los Angeles in 1964, when she was 18 years old.
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Estela Bueno in Los Angeles, at 18 years old in 1964.
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The Cuban-American generation gap —
Estela Bueno in Camagüey, Cuba, taken at Colegio Teresiano in 1952, before Fidel Casto's successful 1959 revolution.
