EXCLUSIVE: Yara Martinez ( Bull ) is the newest addition to the cast of Pedro Pan , the historical thriller dramatizing Cuban child rescue mission Operation Pedro Pan, on which we were first to report.

Character details for Martinez are under wraps. Kicking off production in Mexico early next month, the film’s cast also includes Néstor Carbonell, Allen Leech, Danny Pino, Paz Vega, Andy García, and Annabelle Wallis.

Set in the aftermath of Fidel Castro’s Cuban revolution, Pedro Pan follows a Cuban socialite, an English schoolteacher, and an Irish Catholic priest in Miami who spearhead a daring operation to help more than 14,000 children escape communist indoctrination and begin new lives in America — evading Castro’s secret police at every turn.

The real-life Operation Pedro P

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