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...used to be one of these people who would feel great angst over the lack of interest in national news displayed by many Americans. However, poor little Elian Gonzalez radically changed my mind on this subject. Is this issue important? Yes. But the other day I arrived at the crux of the issue. A friend of mine, for whom I have the utmost respect in terms of keeping up with current events, flipped off Tom Brokaw's special afternoon update in favor of the highly intellectual Fox show "Real TV." Seeing a 300-pound Marlin pull...
...officials in January, after they initially interviewed Juan Miguel at length and found that he was the kind of father who knows his child's shoe size and the names of his favorite teachers. He wanted Elian back, and he had no desire to live here. "Mr. Gonzalez and I do not share political beliefs," Reno said Friday afternoon. But "it is not our place to punish a father for his political beliefs or where he wants to raise his child." To do so, in fact, would "change the concept of family for the rest of time...
...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 no big family meeting was possible until Lazaro takes Elian by the hand, brings him to Juan Miguel and says, "Here's your...
...those who have known 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...
...Banana Republic" label sticking to Miami in the final throes of the Elian Gonzalez crisis is a source of snide humor for most Americans. But many younger Cuban Americans in Miami are getting tired of the hard-line anti-Castro operatives who have helped manufacture that stereotype--especially the privileged, imperious elite who set themselves up as a pueblo sufrido, a suffering people, as martyred as black slaves and Holocaust Jews, but ever ready to jump on expensive speedboats to reclaim huge family estates the moment the old communist dictator stops breathing...