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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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.
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?).
Stay home, kid.
They wanted us to click on their link. ;-) It’s still interesting that he wants to visit, though. lol
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.
My thoughts exactly.
I want to move to Switzerland.
I deserve special rights.
I wonder who was in that bedroom with a camera at the ready.
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.
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.
Will Steffy get it?
Right; it’s a trick. He’s a trained spy, ready to operate in plain sight!
Let him do it then send him back at gunpoint again.
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