The Disappearing Acts of Ana Mendieta
Rebecca O’Dwyer, Apollo
June 2018
It is 1961. Despite recent efforts undertaken by the CIA at the Bay of Pigs, Fidel Castro has been in power for two years, and Ana Mendieta and her older sister Raquelin are separated from their parents and flown from Cuba to the United States as part of Operation Peter Pan. Between 1960 and 1962, some 14,000 Cuban children would make this journey, precious cargo channelled out from their homeland towards the safety of something, anything, else. […]