Word: elian
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...from Miami to Washington to try to get Juan Miguel alone and persuade him to come to Miami for a summit, show him the error of his ways, give him a taste of a new life. The family's options were fast drying up, even as the crowds chanted "Elian will not leave" and talked about using women and children as human shields. But Juan Miguel was not in the mood to talk to his son's "kidnappers." He and his family went sightseeing. On the phone Friday night, according to Craig, Juan Miguel told Uncle Delfin Gonzalez that...
...When Elian was rescued from his inner tube by fishermen on Thanksgiving Day, the first information he gave was his father's name and address in Cardenas. And ever since then, the true relationship between father and son has been a central mystery to this tale. Elian's relatives in Miami say Juan Miguel knew that his ex-wife was planning to flee to America with Elian, and they produce a Sprint phone bill to prove he had called to alert relatives to look out for them. They even say he had applied for a visa for himself...
...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 even went back to visit in 1998--which was the only time he had met Elian before last December. Relations between the two branches of the family were warm, as long as the subject stayed away from politics...
...lucky elite who are paid in dollars, in his job as a guard and cashier at the Varadero tourist resort, Cuba's version of Cancun. Altogether, in wages, tips and bonuses, he earns more than 10 times Cuba's $15 average monthly salary--enough to afford to buy Elian imported Power Ranger toys and birthday pinatas fat with Italian hard candy and German chocolates...
Though he and Elian's mother Elisabeth were divorced, they remained close as they shared custody of their son; Elian typically spent four to five days a week at his father's house. Elian enjoyed that rarest of Cuban luxuries: his own air-conditioned bedroom. And before Juan Miguel sold it to pay, he says, for calls to Elian in Miami, the boy's father even had a car, a 1956 Nash Rambler, in which 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...