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Exclusive Interview: Elian Gonzalez Wants to Come to the US
ABC News ^ | 05/18/2015 | By JIM AVILA and SERENA MARSHALL

Posted on 05/18/2015 12:12:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Elian Gonzalez would like to return to the United States, he tells ABC News in an exclusive interview.

"To the American people, first I say thank you for the love they give me," Gonzalez said. "I want the time to give my love to American people."

Gonzalez was found floating off of Florida's coast in 1999, after the boat he was in with his mother capsized. Gonzalez stayed with his uncle in Miami, but the 6-year-old boy soon found himself at the center of a tug of war between Cuba and the United States over whether he should remain in this country or be returned to his father in Cuba.

Today, Gonzalez says he'd like to come back to the United States, but only as a tourist, telling ABC News he'd like to see a baseball game, visit Washington museums and talk to Americans.

"For my family it has always been, we always have the desire to say to the American people, to say to each household our gratitude, appreciation and love that we have," he said. "Perhaps one day we could pay a visit to the United States. I could personally thank those people who helped us, who were there by our side. Because we're so grateful for what they did."

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TOPICS: Cuba; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cuba; eliangonzalez
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To: SeekAndFind

One of two ways this could shake out:

a) The kid secretly wants to defect - which Obama would double cross him.

b) The kid is now a true believer and he is being totally used by Fidel and Obama as a propaganda tool to show what a terrific idea it was of Obama to normalize relations with Cuba.


21 posted on 05/18/2015 1:03:00 PM PDT by Obadiah (This is Bravo-6, we have Zips in the wire! I repeat, Zips in the wire.)
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To: tanknetter
I’d put good money on him coming here, attacking his reactionary American family members, getting his photo ops with Jimmy Carter and Michael Moore, and using an audience with Obama to call for full normalized relations and trade.

Without a doubt.

He's already blamed the U.S. embargo for his mother's death:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loHvj9osEpg

He's a communist, unless he's pretending (who knows?).

22 posted on 05/18/2015 1:03:13 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: SeekAndFind

Stay home, kid.


23 posted on 05/18/2015 1:04:39 PM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: SeekAndFind

They wanted us to click on their link. ;-) It’s still interesting that he wants to visit, though. lol


24 posted on 05/18/2015 1:07:38 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: SeekAndFind

If his intentions are to defect, no doubt castro has his family members as hostages. Warning him that if he doesnt come back, his family could face the consequences of his actions. There’s also the danger of obama sending him back against his will the way clinton did.


25 posted on 05/18/2015 1:17:52 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Ted Grant

My thoughts exactly.


26 posted on 05/18/2015 1:28:22 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I want to move to Switzerland.
I deserve special rights.


27 posted on 05/18/2015 1:28:38 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I wonder who was in that bedroom with a camera at the ready.


28 posted on 05/18/2015 1:47:05 PM PDT by getitright (If you call this HOPE, can we give despair a shot?)
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To: SeekAndFind

No doubt the few pittance of wealth in that country was directed at him and his family...it’s hard to imagine anything better, when you’re treated like a God for propaganda reasons.


29 posted on 05/18/2015 2:59:43 PM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'about' page))
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To: DoodleDawg

Maybe not. Maybe he is not a committed Fidelista.

Remember that he was 6 years old when the Clinton Administration decided that they would go along with Castro and his father who was mad because his mother tried to bring him to freedom. Remember it was the Clinton Administration who sent a bunch of uniformed, heavily armed men with helmets and googles on to break into his relatives home and grab him to send him home to somebody like Castro.

He is now grown and perhaps would like to see what his mother knew, and not what his encumbered father would not admit to him. We ought to let him know what Clinton did to him, so he could dislike him too.

It’s obvious that he would like to get a look at what he would have had if Clinton wasn’t such a pansy. Let’s let him have a look see. You might be surprised at the outcome once he has seen what he couldn’t get in Cuba.


30 posted on 05/18/2015 4:42:52 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: SeekAndFind
Exclusive Interview: Elian Gonzalez Wants to Come to the US for a visit.

Will Steffy get it?

31 posted on 05/18/2015 4:46:06 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: DoodleDawg

Right; it’s a trick. He’s a trained spy, ready to operate in plain sight!


32 posted on 05/19/2015 10:08:59 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Let him do it then send him back at gunpoint again.


33 posted on 05/22/2015 2:54:30 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Death before disco.)
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