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...because Juan Miguel Gonzalez wants more time alone with his son before he is prepared to consider a meeting. And Elian moved with his father to a private residence near the Wye River Plantation in Maryland. There they'll be joined shortly by Elian's cousin and teacher, and four of his playmates (and one parent for each), to whom the State Department will issue visas allowing them to visit the U.S. for two weeks to keep the boy company...
Images are the weapon of choice in the war over Elian Gonzalez, which may be why his Miami relatives are claiming that the photographs of the boy smiling happily as he was reunited with his father were faked. Elian's second cousin Marisleysis Gonzalez charged, during an emotional media conference in Washington on Sunday, that Saturday's pictures released by Juan Miguel Gonzalez's lawyers showing Elian warmly hugging his father and playing with his six-month-old half brother, Hianny, were somehow fabricated, because the boy's hair in the pictures was supposedly longer than at the time...
...Juan Miguel longest say he has always been content in Castro's Cuba. His father Juan Gonzalez was one of eight brothers and sisters, of whom five fled Cuba for the U.S. while three, including Juan Miguel's father, remained behind. "They sympathized with the communists and Castro," says cousin Marcia Gonzalez in Miami. Over the years the Miami branch often urged the others to join them. But INS officials say they have no record of Juan Miguel's ever applying for a visa, and friends in Cuba say he had made his peace with his life there. Uncle Lazaro...
...Elian rode through town like a prince, while many people relied on horse-drawn carts. "I'm not ashamed of the life Elian has here," he told TIME in a recent interview. "In fact, our friends say we spoil him." As for the world across the straits, a Cardenas cousin, Lourdes Velazquez, says that "Juan Miguel simply doesn't want the faster lifestyle he sees the others living in Miami. He likes it here, where he can walk Elian to school and there is family close by. It really is his choice, and it's mine...
...report to the waiting media circus that they had discussed every Yankee virtue from the Federalist papers to 401(k)s. Elian went to Disney World, hugged Barney, celebrated his sixth birthday with the gift of a toy gun. He fell in love with chocolate milk; a Florida cousin who visits regularly told TIME that whenever Elian's cousin Marisleysis poured him a glass, she made a point of adding that "Fidel Castro won't let his grandmas make that for him in Cuba...