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...judge who on Monday awarded one those relatives temporary custody. Armando Gutierrez served as a political consultant in the 1998 election campaign of Judge Rodriguez, who said Monday that (unlike the U.S. government) she'd been convinced that Elian faces imminent danger if he were returned to Cuba now. Gutierrez denied any conflict of interest Tuesday, telling TIME, "I'm not party to this lawsuit, I'm just a community activist who's not deriving any benefit from this case." He did acknowledge serving as a paid consultant to the election campaign of the judge, who was later transferred from...
Regardless of what we all might think about whether little Elin Gonzlez should return to Cuba, it seems to me that his Miami family is egregiously exploiting the media for their own gain, and at the same time, prostituting the dignity of a six-year-old boy whose mother recently died. The latest image: Elin exiting his home, holding in his hands the subpoena from House Government Oversight Committee chair Dan Burton (R-Ind.) and giving the assembled television cameras a peace sign with his left hand. How happy he looked...
...facts of the case that aren't in dispute should temper any suggestion that Elin is truly pleased with his situation. He survived, barely, a harrowing ordeal en route from Cuba to Florida. His mother died, likely in front of his eyes. Days later, he became enmeshed in an international controversy over his fate. His American family, which purports to have his best interests at heart, quickly lost the moral high ground. Elin was paraded before Miami television cameras on a daily basis. Invited by the family, the cameras followed the boy to school, to Universal Studios, on shopping outings...
...lost his mother needs is solace, counseling and time. Elin has been given none of these. If we were all utilitarians, or disciples of Princeton's Peter Singer, we might say that the exploitation of Elin is justified if it transmutes a significant political point to Castro's Cuba. This rationale seems to me to be the subconscious moral calculus of those who see Elin as a hero. To me, this is shameful...
...throw a legislative monkey wrench. Immigration and Naturalization Services officials spent the weekend working to determine whether the eleventh-hour subpoena Burton filed Friday for Elian Gonzalez to testify before Congress February 10 will preclude the agency from returning the six-year-old boy to his father in Cuba by its stated deadline of January 14. And while Burton, a legislative ally of anti-Castro senator Jesse Helms, could be expected to find some way to both keep the boy in the country and make some political hay for himself, support came from less expected quarters. Saturday's example...