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Currently, 16, Elian has been the pawn in dispute between the Cuban exiles in Miami and the Government of the rule then, Fidel Castro.
Ten years ago, the Cuban government has won a battle, after the U.S. agreed to return the child at the age of six years with his mother, had fled the island on a fragile vessel. Her mother, Elizabeth Brotons, died in the attempt to free the child from the narrow limits of the regime that governs the country, the same regime he defends ironically today.
In a very public battle for custody of the child, the father of Elian, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, has asked the child to return to Cuba. For parents who hosted Elian in their South Florida home, the boy was an emblem of freedom and representation of the struggle for survival. However, the Cuban government has maintained that the child should be returned to his father, away from the spotlight of the press have been impossible to lead a normal life.
Between December 1999 and June 2000, the world watched the dramatic saga which ended April 22, 2000 when, after failed attempts to reach an agreement between the U.S. Justice Department and Elian's family, the The child was suddenly taken from her parents' house "by uniformed federal agents with machine guns. In this episode, the now iconic photograph of Pulitzer Prize and was broken by a young Elian terrorized before an armed officer.
The child was returned to his father, who was already on American soil.On 1 June, after one month of the incident, the Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the Miami relatives of the child to give the boy asylum, arguing that the minor could not ask for Elian this protection and that his father could represent. A few days later, the father and son returned to Cuba.
Over the past 10 years, Elian has led all but a normal life. He was taken under the wing of Fidel Castro himself and his birthdays are celebrated publicly as genuine revolutionary acts. Even at each anniversary of his return is marked by a political speech.The Cuban government has touted the triumph and the child was presented by the Cuban press alongside some of the most important leaders of the Cuban Revolution, first as a trophy of battle and as a pioneer and now as a young communist....
The Guardian with updates on his life appearing on the news, and there is even a bronze statue of him raising a clenching fist in a communist museum in the country. Cuban government releases photos of teenaged Elian Gonzalezall 338 news articles »
