He especially makes use of personal testimonies from exiles and presents his works using a combination of traditional historical narrative and oral history.
[5] On the question of whether or not the programs were morally justified (in light of the trauma of family separation), Triay emphatically believes that, given the rise of a totalitarian Communist state in Cuba, the parents of the Operation Pedro Pan children were validated in sending their offspring out of the country and to the United States.
[8] Triay was awarded the Florida Historical Society's Samuel Proctor Oral History Prize in 2001 for Bay of Pigs.
Some of what you read made the exiles look like a bunch of blind, maniacal, machete-wielding anti-Communist, anti-Castro fanatics.
The images in the book were from a collection belonging to Babún’s late father, whose company photographer was given special access to Castro’s mountain based guerrilla camp.
The Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies called it, “an exceptionally significant contribution to Cuban history through the power of photography.