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...mother drowned while escaping Cuba, leaving him to float on an inner tube for two days, his saga has been as bizarre and unending as a novel of magic realism. The Miami lawyers are appealing Moore's ruling, and myriad other delay tactics await. Meanwhile, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro apparently still won't let Juan Miguel, 31, go to Miami to get Elian. Bottom line: this ugly international custody battle has a few more skirmishes to go before one side can claim victory...
...true foes in this fight--Castro and Miami's Cuban-exile lobby, the Cuban-American National Foundation (CANF)--both want their new missile crisis to last and revive the waning influence they enjoyed during the cold war. "They need this fight the way you and I need oxygen," says Dr. Raul de Velasco, head of the moderate Miami-based Cuban Committee for Democracy. Attorney General Reno insists that keeping Elian here will set a precedent that could in turn make U.S. children legally vulnerable abroad. But at the same time, Al Gore needs Florida votes. As a result, although Reno...
...stake for CANF is nothing less than its role as Miami's Tammany Hall--and as arbiter of Washington's Cuba policy. Its authoritarian control has weakened in recent years, as has public support for the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba. Last fall, CANF leaders were desperate to counter Castro's planned visit to the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle, and were saved when Elian washed up as their poster boy. Millionaire chairman Jorge Mas denies the lobby is using Elian: "Our mission is to ensure that this boy gets his due process of law." But he adds...
...dispute that reality. Still, if Castro controls Juan Miguel, many are worried that the Foundation is manipulating Lazaro Gonzalez, 49, the semi-employed great-uncle who has custody of Elian in Miami. Close relatives in Miami say his many publicity stunts with the boy are out of character. And while relatives say they admire the mothering that Lazaro's daughter Marisleysis, 21, has given Elian, they complain, in the words of one of them, that "she doesn't make him a glass of chocolate milk without telling him that his grandmothers can't buy that for him in Cuba...
...Cuban-American National Foundation is nothing less than its role as Miami's Tammany Hall - and as arbiter of Washington's Cuba policy," says Padgett. "Its authoritarian control has weakened in recent years, as has public support for the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba." And even as the anti-Castro exiles use the Elian case as a make-or-break campaign to revive their fortunes, it's working wonders for the dictator they love to hate. "Elian's plight has given Fidel Castro political life support," says Padgett. "The true foes in this fight - Castro and the CANF - both want...