what were the freedom flights cuba
Search the Miami Herald's Freedom Flights Database. 1  The Freedom Flights represent the largest and longest resettlement program of political refugees ever sponsored by the U.S. government , offering an escape from Fidel Castro's Cuba to 265,000 people.
On this day, November 6, in 1965, the U.S. and Cuba made formal what had already been going on for decades â a mass exodus of refugees from Cuba to the United States. The Freedom Flights program went on for six years and eventually brought 250,000 Cubans to the U.S. Twice daily five times a week an empty passenger plane would depart Florida on its way to Cuba, returning with an average of 85 passengers, mostly families with young children.