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...drive to "save" Elian may, in fact, reflect a generational concern, even if it contains mixed messages - exile activists insist that sending Elian home to grow up in Castro's Cuba would be profoundly inhumane, and yet it's hard to imagine that a strongman who's about to turn 74 will maintain his grip much longer. But the decline of the embargo and emboldening of home-based dissidents and institutions such as the Catholic Church - as well as the considerable hostility toward the Miami leadership displayed on Cuba's streets during protests over Elian - suggest that post-Castro Cuba...
...Elian Gonzalez was fated to arrive in Florida at a time when the anti-Castro lobby was desperately looking for an issue on which to anchor a counteroffensive against Washington's incremental moves to relax the embargo. No sooner was the boy out of the hospital than his face had appeared on posters printed by exile activists to protest Cuba's attendance at World Trade Organization talks in the U.S. last December. But while fear of messy protests may have kept Castro away from Seattle, the exiles are being forced to confront the reality that he has, for the most...
...older generation, the battle to save Elian from Castro's Cuba be a way of renewing their own faith and identity. But the reality remains that Elian Gonzalez is likely to grow up in a world from which both Castro and his fiercest foes have departed. It must be hoped that he may transcend the trauma their battle has visited upon...
However delicate and diplomatic the lastest negotiations over Elian Gonzalez may become, in the end they're only intended to ease the way to a foregone conclusion. Greg Craig, an American attorney representing Elian's father, flew to Havana Tuesday night for meetings with his client and with Fidel Castro, hoping to persuade both that Juan Miguel Gonzalez should fly to the U.S. as soon as possible. Gonzalez has insisted on a guarantee that he be given immediate custody of Elian, and also that Washington issue visas for a large entourage if he and Elian are to remain...
November 25-28, 1999 Elian Gonzalez is found on Thanksgiving Day, clinging to an inner tube three miles off the Florida coast. He's released from hospital the following day after treatment for dehydration and sunburn, and taken into the care of his father's uncle, Lazaro Gonzalez. Anti-Castro exiles make Elian the focus of their protests against Cuba's attendance at the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle...