sep 23, 1961 - 14 in resistance arrested for distributing copies of rumored "patria potestad" law

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Rivero, Raul. “Detiene Numerosas Personas la Policia de Fidel Castro.” Miami Herald. September 23, 1961. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl search/we/Archives/?p_ product =KRHA-MH&p_theme=histpaper&p_nbid=&p_action=doc&p_docid =15E649078D10BA14. Accessed January 12, 2018. This article in Spanish from the Miami Herald translates to “numerous persons detained by Fidel Castro’s police.” According to the article, Castro’s secret police arrested 14 persons for falsely distributing copies of the rumored “Patria Potestad” law. These individuals supposedly had 15,000 copies of the rumored decree, which Castro claimed to be propaganda from counterrevolutionaries, supported by the United States government. This further fueled the uncertainty of the children’s future in Cuba.

[found in https://www.nhd.org/sites/default/files/OperationPedroPanBib.pdf]

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