Editing Operation Peter Pan (section)

=== Conflicting narratives ===
The United States government may have had other than humanitarian motives for allowing Cuban migration. The emigration of Cuba's middle class undermined its economic situation through a "brain drain".<ref name=Bradford2016/> Stories of abandoned Pedro Pans deepened Anti-Castro sentiment within the Americas, connecting the rise of Communism and the separation of families.

In 1978, El Grupo Areito and Casa de las Américas collaborated to publish [https://www.amazon.com/Contra-marea-grupo-areito-premio-testimonio-americas/dp/B00WAKZH38 "Contra viento y marea]", a book of anonymous testimonies detailing alienation from both the Cuban community from which they fled and the American community to which they came. A direct contrast to the previous happy-go-lucky stories of Operation Pedro Pan, these accounts told stories of loneliness, poor conditions and mental, physical and sexual abuse.<ref name=Bradford2016/>