Freedom Flights
1965–1973 flights from Cuba to Miami / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Part of the Cuban exodus | |
Date | 1965 – 1973 |
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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 |
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