CUBA-US RELATION:
1) ANA MENDIETA (Cuban born-American raised)
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/22/ana-mendieta-artist-work-foretold-death
-Ana Mendieta, an adopted refugee, was a Cuban artist who was a part of the mission called Pedro Pan. Her entire work was somehow in correlation with the topic of “otherness”.
-People and mother earth are no two separate entities.-Absence is an essential component of her work.
-Mendieta was a key figure in the Body Art movement. She was very often playing with the fluidity of gender.
-Mendieta created a diverse collection of work that included silhouettes of her body created in mud, earth, rocks, wildflowers and leaves, performance pieces that evoked the folk and occult traditions of her native Cuba as well as her beloved Mexico and subversive self-portraits that played with notions of beauty, belonging and gender.
-Mendieta was only 37 when she died in New York under the very unclear circumstances. It’s not clear was she committed suicide or she was brutally killed by her lover Andre.
2) PETTER PAN/PEDRO PAN
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/150814-cuba-operation-peter-pan-embassy-reopening-Castro/
-From 1960 to 1962, 14,048 Cuban minors arrived in Miami to escape Communist indoctrination and respression.
ReplyDelete- Nena Torres was one of those kids. Today she is a professor of Latina Studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
-Life in the U.S. wasn’t necessarily easy for Nena—her parents did join her shortly after she arrived but they faced racism and discrimination in Midland, Texas.
-She wrote a book on the subject: The Lost Apple: Operation Pedro Pan, Cuban Children in the U.S., and the Promise of a Better Future.
-There is no empirical study has ever been undertaken to ascertain with scientific precision and accuracy the incidence and types of abuse to which Pedro Pan children might have been subjected.
-An estimated 400 Pedro Pans were never reunited with their parents. There have been fewer than half a dozen complaints of documented sexual abuse.
QUESTIONS:
1) How Peter Pans used the knowledge that they got in the USA, in order to start counterrevolution against Castro?
2) Did people organize anti-Castro campaign among themselves from America to Cuba after Peter Pan? What tools did they use in those “protests”.
3) What was the reason for those 400 kids not being reunited with their parents? Who was/is responsible for that?