He was the young boy whose mother risked everything to bring him out of the control of Fidel Castro, and somewhere in the escape, she lost her life. His father’s struggle to bring him back to Cuba caused months of debate.
Attorney General Janet Reno, with present AG Eric Holder as her right-hand man, was criticized for the “guns drawn” manner in which he was taken from his Miami-family’s home. In the end, despite the ideology of Communism versus Freedom, he was reunited with his father, as he rightfully needed to be ( Brazil should have returned Sean Goldman to his father in the same manner recently, without the several year battle).
Today, a decade after the international custody exchange, Elian Gonzalez, under the watchful idea of the Castro regime, is now 16, and an active member of Castro’s Union of Young Communists.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cb_cuba_elian_gonzalez;_ylt=AmFIzUfAzXCfopCu4Ji5O.LlWMcF
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April 5, 2010 at 7:51 pm
Stothes
First and foremost, I’m glad he was returned to his father. The rest is just politics…
April 6, 2010 at 8:58 am
JAMES
That was the ONLY right thing to do. It was my opinion at the time that the “international Incident” was going to escalate when the father came here to fight for his son, because I figured he would seek asylum at that point. One can only wonder what threats against his new wife and family were made before he left Cuba. After all, that would have been an embarassment to Castro. Given the fact that Elian was returned to his father and family in Cuba, as was right, why didn’t our government move faster to insist that the same thing be done when Sean Goldman’s mother died in Brazil? Why did his father have to fight so much harder and longer? Where was our government helping him?
April 5, 2010 at 8:55 pm
gumply
Elian doesn’t look like he has much enthusiasm showing on his face. I am thinking that he is just biding his time. he will never forget his mom and what happened to her and that they were trying to escape to freedom. (joke). We just think were free.
I am betting that if he could have one wish he wouldn’t be there.
April 6, 2010 at 8:53 am
JAMES
That is why he and his family are under the regime’s watchful eye. For his part, Castro “rewarded” Elian’s father with a “better life” than what he would have had in Cuba, for not defecting himself when he came here to fight for his son, IMO.