Elian's "Father" delivering Elian to their slave master: Castro.
Just look at the poor kid's face.
Posted on 08/01/2004 2:57:57 PM PDT by Libloather
4 years after return to Cuba, Elian a normal schoolboy
BY MAKI BECKER
New York Daily News
Posted on Sat, Jul. 31, 2004
NEW YORK - (KRT) - Elian Gonzalez, now 10, hits the books in Cardenas, Cuba, where he lives with his father.
Four years after little Elian Gonzalez was plucked from the seas off Florida's coast and sparked an international custody battle, the young boy is leading a sheltered and almost normal life back in Cuba.
Elian lives with his father in their hometown of Cardenas and he still sports the same impish grin that captivated the world back in 2000.
In an interview with NBC's "Dateline" to air Sunday, Elian's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, says he has generally kept Elian out of the limelight, even moving to a secret location in town to avoid the press.
"The media (in Miami) intimidated him, pressured him most of all," Gonzalez said in his first interview in three years. "It totally overwhelmed him."
As Elian's American relatives fought to keep him in the U.S. and his father sought to take him back to Cuba, hundreds of reporters camped out outside their Miami home, recording every movement of the photogenic little boy.
The custody clash even led to a war of words between Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and the boy's fiercely anti-Castro American relatives.
The stalemate ended dramatically as heavily armed federal officers stormed the house in the middle of the night, snatched the terrified boy and took him into protective custody.
Elian still grieves for his mother who drowned when their boat capsized on its way to Florida, Gonzalez said, but he has adjusted to life well.
"I can truly say that since his return, my son has never had to see a psychologist, or anyone else," Gonzalez told "Dateline NBC."
Elian is learning karate and has two girlfriends, Gonzalez reports.
Years? He was barely "Years" old. He seemed pretty content with his father to me. No, he doesn't realize what Cuba's all about yet, but I just can't condone keeping a young child from his only living parent for political reasons.
It was an ugly situation but I have to side with "Family" here.
People just don't understand, there is no "family" under totalitarianism. There is only the state. They build statues to kids who rat out their parents, for pete's sake.
What a load of pro-Communist drek this article is. Sheesh.
VoteBush04
Elian's Mother was never married to Elian's Father, he was paying no child support and hardly ever saw the kid. He was NOT acting as a Father, when the kid was nearby.
He only developed an interest in the kid, after Castro ordered him to, when Elian was here.
Note the expression on his face. So many photos of him in the US with a smile on his face (before his kidnapping by Reno and company)...and now back in Cuba...not a smile since.
And he was never proved to be the father, which should/would have happened if he was legally granted custody, according to the law, instead of being torn from the arms of friends at gunpoint.
Elian lives with his father in prison. Elian lives with his father at Castro's pleasure. There are no parental rights in Cuba.
I remember all the bleeding hearts scatting about Elian and his Daddy's rights. They have no rights. They live in Cuba. Castro decides who lives and dies.
Sending that boy back to Cuba was the USA's saddest day. It gave validation to Castro and Cuba's "government". Only the mentally ill and the hard socialist in this country could see "good" in sending Elian back to that communist hellhole.
I hope Reno and Clinton get an extra squirt of charcoal starter as they pass through the trap-door to hell.
"now back in Cuba...not a smile since."
Exactly.
Elian remembers...
"By now it's all a distant memory to a ten year old."
I'm not sure, the kid almost died at sea and had a gun stuck in his face. I think that stuff probably stays with you, he was old enough to remember it.
I'm sure his dad loves him, that I will say. And I know that that commie *ss-kisser Clinton (wow, excuse me! but I won't take it back) totally screwed this up. What did he think was Castro going to invade the USA over this little boy?
Didnt Reno suffer from parkinsons during her days as AG? Isn't it incredible.....the press tries to go back and say Reagan was suffering from AZ, that's why he made those crazy decisions. No one except for the freepers are questioning HER judgement. Mainstream "Journalists" today really are the most incompetent fools I've ever seen in any profession...and that's not by coincidence.
It was truly most passing strange how the press would go on about Reno's parkinsons and how cruel it was to beat up on a sick old lady while she was in office, but when she was running for governor of FL and in the years since, she has been verily the picture of vim and vigor.
The "father" simply did not care. He had nothing to do with his sons life after his birth.
IF he WAS a good father, he would have wanted the boy to stay in "la yuma." (The USA).
Elian's "Father" delivering Elian to their slave master: Castro.
Just look at the poor kid's face.
Reality reminder.
"I'm sure his dad loves him, that I will say. "
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Oh, please....
If he loved him, he would have wanted Elian to have a better life and stay in the US.
The guy is a coward, sold out the welbeing and soul of his son, to Castro.
It's like to old story from the Bible, of two women claiming a child. Solomon (?) said, then he'll cut the child in two -- one said that's OK, the other said, she would rather give up any claim to the child, just to make sure the child wasn't harmed. That was the real Mother, who really loved the child.
Elian's Father was nothing but Castro's puppet.
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