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Cuban Government releases photos of teenaged Elian Gonzalez
http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100406/i/r4040007251.jpg?x=213&y=147&xc=2&yc=1&wc=409&hc=28 2&q=85&sig=mh_b5Bh4CpZw2UksdQq8sQ-- (broken link) Tue Apr 6, 12:12 pm ET Ten years ago this month, the saga of a Cuban boy named Elian Gonzalez captivated the nation and much of the world. Elian, 6, was found floating on an inner tube off the coast of Florida, after his mother drowned trying to reach America. The Cuban immigrant community in Florida embraced the boy as a symbol of the struggle of ordinary Cubans to flee the oppression of Fidel Castro's communist regime, and rallied behind the boy's extended family in Miami, which sought custody of young Elian. But U.S. immigration officials insisted that the boy be returned to his father in Havana. Agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service conducted an armed raid on Elian's adoptive Miami home - yielding a powerful image of paramilitary forces in America menacing a frightened 6-year-old. Florida's Cuban immigrant community brandished that infamous photo as a reminder of what they considered American power effectively doing the bidding of a heartless Castro government. A decade later, however, there are new photos of a nearly grown-up Elian Gonzalez - and they present a very different kind of propaganda
Cuban government releases photos of teenaged Elian Gonzalez - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1481 - broken link)
Thank you Bill Clinton and Janet Reno....
In another paralell earth Elian was able to stay in America and be what he wanted.
Cuban government releases photos of teenaged Elian Gonzalez - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1481 - broken link)
While Cuba has played up Elian Gonzalez's symbolic value in stoking nationalist sentiment, he still remains a more divisive figure in the United States, provoking fierce reactions on the American left and right. After the latest batch of photos went public Monday, the American Thinker weighed in with a rallying cry from the right, no doubt seconded widely in the Cuban immigrant community:
If Elian had been granted asylum, today he would be a teenager preparing to go to college with every opportunity for success ahead of him. Instead, on the cusp of adulthood, Elian poses for propaganda photos sandwiched between Cuban army soldiers attending the Union of Young Communists congress in Havana...The youthful Gonzalez should have been wrapped in the America flag. Instead a boy who once represented the quest for the God given right to be free, waves a Cuban flag symbolizing poverty, oppression, authoritarianism and misinformation.
What happened to "Close the borders" chant. All lies??
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