Nicholas Nauman

Aug 4, 2023 | ocula.com | Tessa Moldan |Diana d'Arenberg |Nicholas Nauman

Early YearsMendieta was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1948. In 1961, Ana and her sister, Raquel, were sent to the United States by their father, who had engaged in counter-revolutionary activity and was confined for 18 years due to his involvement in the Bay of Pigs. Fleeing to the United States in Operation Peter Pan, which saw over 14,000 unaccompanied minors leave the country between 1960 and 1962, she arrived in the United States at the height of the civil rights movement.