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==In culture== Operation Peter Pan is recounted in: *''[[Waiting for Snow in Havana]]'', in which [[Carlos Eire]] describes his experiences during Operation Peter Pan *''Learning to Die in Miami'', another memoir by Carlos Eire about his emigration to the United States from Havana *''Operation Pedro Pan: The Untold Exodus of 14,048 Cuban Children'', based on the research and interviews of Yvonne M. Conde *''The Red Umbrella,'' a young-adult historical fiction novel by Christina Diaz Gonzalez, based on her mother's exile from Cuba as a teenager<ref>{{cite news|last1=Quattlebaum|first1=Mary|title=Christina Diaz Gonzalez's 'The Red Umbrella' and Adam Rex's 'Fat Vampire'|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/03/AR2010080306521.html|access-date=28 March 2016|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=4 August 2010}}</ref> * ''Cuba on My Mind: Journeys to a Severed Nation'', an exploration of Havana, Miami, and the "one-and-half-generation" by Román de la Campa<ref>[https://archive.org/details/cubaonmymindjour0000dela/page/37 Flores, Juan. "Latinos, Cubanos and the New Americanism." Foreword to ''Cuba on My Mind'']</ref> *''[[Boxing For Cuba]]'', a 2007 memoir by [[Bill Vidal]], civil servant and mayor of Denver<ref>{{cite news|title=Denver Official Tells Childhood Story of Rescue, Survival|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93940882|publisher=NPR|work=Around the Nation| access-date=28 March 2016| date=15 July 2011}}</ref> * "Operation Peter Pan", a song written by [[Tori Amos]] originally on the B-side to the limited edition release of her single "[[A Sorta Fairytale]]" *The operation is the main influence behind the [[Manic Street Preachers]] song "Baby Elián", the penultimate track from the band's sixth studio album, ''[[Know Your Enemy (Manic Street Preachers album)|Know Your Enemy]]''. *On the 2017 Netflix Original Series [[One Day at a Time (2017 TV series)|''One Day at a Time'']], Lydia Riera, played by Rita Moreno, the grandmother on the show, moved to the US via Pedro Pan.<ref>{{cite news|title=The inspiration behind Netflix's timely 'One Day at a Time' reboot|url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/06/entertainment/one-day-at-a-time-netflix-reboot| publisher=CNN|date=6 January 2016}}</ref> *The Play Sonia Flew by Melinda Lopez with the main character is a Pedro Pan child<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sonia Flew |url=https://www.melindalopez.com/sonia-flew |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=Melinda Lopez |language=en-US}}</ref> *''Black Pedro Pan,'' Ricardo E. Gonzalez Zayas memoir which recounts his experience as a 13 year old Afro-Cuban refugee who participated in operation peter pan.
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