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Biographer Tad Szulc calls Cuban President Fidel Castro a "master at the game of letting his enemies trap themselves." And the aging dictator believes he has his archenemies, Miami's Cuban exiles, right where he wants them in the custody battle over six-year-old Elian Gonzalez. Ever since Elian was rescued from the Atlantic last Thanksgiving and handed to relatives in Miami--who refuse to send him back to his father in communist Cuba--the exiles have dared Castro to let the dad, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, come to Miami to get the boy himself. Their bet was that Castro...
...turnabout panicked Miami like an air-raid siren, raising cold war tensions most Americans put behind them a decade ago. As a showdown loomed between the U.S. government and the politically potent and volatile exiles, Elian's welfare once again seemed the last thing on the minds of the Cuban leader and other political opportunists...
...Elian's father that he appeared to be trying to keep a juicy propaganda battle raging. Then the mayor of Miami-Dade County declared that his police won't help enforce the law if the time comes to deliver Elian to his dad. Miami-Dade, which is 40% Cuban, suddenly looked like a rogue republic in the Everglades. And Al Gore--plainly campaigning for Cuban-American votes--broke with Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno by siding with the exiles who want to keep Elian in the U.S. Says University of Miami sociologist Max Castro...
Juan Miguel Gonzalez arrived in Washington at dawn on Thursday, and with him, the moment of truth in the tortured saga of his son. Unless Gonzalez surprises everybody by simply walking away from his Cuban minders and into the arms of his anti-Castro uncles down in Miami, his presence forces the U.S. government to resolve the standoff. The INS had announced on Monday that it would begin the process of transferring custody of Elian upon his father's arrival, and Gonzalez is unlikely to have traveled without the assurance of custody he - and Castro - demanded as a precondition...
...Although many second-generation exiles are out there on the front lines fighting to keep Elian in the U.S., most of their generation are unlikely to share their parents' passion. "Those who were born here aren't simply Cubans," says Padgett. "They're Cuban-Americans. They look at Cuba as the place their parents are from; not necessarily as the place to which they're planning to return. Their lives and careers are here. Also, they're able to see beyond Fidel, to look at how Cuba can be changed after he's gone. But many of the older generation...