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Cuba: For a kid who once enjoyed Disney World, it's now the Union of Young Communists. That's the news from Elian Gonzalez and the propaganda he serves. Where are those who assured this wouldn't happen?Bill Clinton and Janet Reno assured the American public that the much-disputed Elian Gonzalez case was only a matter of a child who "belongs with his father," rather than a communist dictator's useful tool. The boy is now 14, and in his latest propaganda stunt, he's in a leading role for 18,000 young communists in the Union, a complete ward of the state. It didn't have...

HAVANA, Cuba (AP) -- The Cuban boy at the center of an international custody battle eight years ago has joined Cuba's Young Communist Union. Elian Gonzalez said he will never let down ex-President Fidel Castro and his brother Raul Castro, according to the Communist youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde. Raul Castro succeeded Fidel as president earlier this year. Now 14, Elian was 6 when his relatives in Miami, Florida, lost their fight to keep him in the United States and he was returned to Cuba in mid-2000 with his father. Elian had survived a boating accident off the Florida coast that...