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What even Reno may not have realized was that the mediators weren't dealing only with the Gonzalez clan: they wanted the blessing of the Cuban-American leaders too, so there would be no picketing or problems. "We wanted everyone to be able to leave the family alone," says Aaron Podhurst, one of the mediators and a longtime Miami lawyer who has been a friend of Reno's for 30 years...
...CAUSA member Richard A. Perez '00, who is also a Crimson editor, said that that calling some Cuban-Americans disloyal simply because they disagree over Elian's fate goes against the very spirit of what the community as a whole came to the United States to protect...
...Every opinion should be heard and shouldn't be persecuted," he said. "One of the reasons why [Cuban Americans] want Elian to stay [in the United States] is for freedom of speech...
...were to be politically correct and not propound a position, we would be virtually voiceless during a time when the Cuban-American voice is very significant," he and his CAUSA co-president Juan Carlos Rasco wrote in an e-mail message to the CAUSA mailing list...
Furthermore, it's disgraceful that The Crimson characterizes the resistance of Cuban-Americans to the will of the Justice Department and the INS as "the rule of the mob" and "irresponsible behavior." The editors dismiss concerns for the boy's future in Cuba as part of a "political agenda" because they don't have the faintest notion what it's like to grow up in a country with no freedom of speech, religion or the press...