Desc: Operation Pedro Pan: The Cuban Children's Exodus: Directed by Carlos V. Gutierrez. Operation Pedro Pan: The Cuban Children's Exodus is a documentary film illustrating the story of the more than 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban children that left our homeland from 1960 -1962. Operation Pedro Pan, a U.S. government-sponsored visa waiver program for unaccompanied Cuban children, is the largest recorded child refugee exodus in the Western Hemisphere.