Freedom Flights
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Freedom Flights transported Cubans to Miami twice daily, five times per week from 1965 to 1973. Its budget was about $12 million and it brought an estimated 300,000 refugees, making it the "largest ai
President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Immigration Act of 1965.
Cuban militia-men help refugees onto a boat in Camarioca, Cuba.
The Mejias family arriving in Miami from a Freedom Flight, 1966.
Busy waiting room of Cuban refugees in the Freedom Tower.
Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, or CDR, are a network of neighborhood committees across Cuba. The organizations, described as the "eyes and ears of the Revolution," exist to help support
"Long Live Socialism" CDR billboard in countryside on the way from Havana to Pinar del Río.
A CDR in Old Havana on Paseo de Martí facing Parque Central
CDR-Sign in Pinar del Río