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...Juan Miguel Gonzalez had a very bad day Thursday. First, he had to sit through a home video released by his Miami relatives and put in heavy rotation by the news networks in which his six-year-old son wagged a finger at his father and said he didn't want to go home to Cuba; then the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals concurred. The court issued an injunction ordering that Elian should remain in the United States pending the outcome of an appeal by his relatives for custody, and the Justice Department indicated it would hold off on efforts...
...That explanation is unlikely to fly either with Juan Miguel Gonzalez or with the Justice Department, which indicated that if the meeting did not happen on Wednesday it would proceed with plans to order Lazaro to hand the boy over at a prescribed time and location. The family meeting had been arranged as it became clear that the Miami family were running out of options, even as they battled to keep legal challenges alive in Florida state and family courts. The family's decision not to go to Washington may have come in response to government spin on the meeting...
...Castro--who wildly warned Cubans last week that the exiles might even try to kill Elian rather than let him go--has still not pulled the trigger. A major sticking point last week was his insistence that Juan Miguel be accompanied by an entourage of some 30 relatives, officials and friends--including a dozen of Elian's first-grade classmates. And U.S. officials wondered privately whether Castro was serious about following through with his new proposal. Although Juan Miguel's U.S. attorney, Gregory Craig, presented a letter to the State Department in Washington, no one made a formal application...
More important, Castro noted that for Juan Miguel to go to the U.S., he still needs an assurance that his uncle Lazaro Gonzalez, who has custody of Elian in Miami, will hand the boy over during a "transition period" in Washington. Then, should Miami lawyers lose their last-ditch bid in federal appeals courts next month to keep Elian in the U.S., Juan Miguel could fly back to Cuba with...
That has been Reno's line since she ruled three months ago that only Elian's father could legally speak for a child so young. (Juan Miguel, a Communist Party member and tourism employee, was divorced from Elisabeth but was granted joint custody of Elian and has been closely involved in his upbringing.) After a federal judge backed her two weeks ago, Reno started talking tough to the exiles, hoping to stop their bid to return to state family court--where elected judges have shown in this case that they can be manipulated by Miami's political leadership. Reno demanded...