Word: lazaro
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...Friday morning, safe in the halls of the Justice Department, when he would look Attorney General Janet Reno in the eye and say thanks for all the help, but can we please just stay here? Then he could arrive in Miami in triumph, the angry vigil outside Great-Uncle Lazaro's house would turn into a carnival, father and son would be reunited at last, and all would live happily ever after in the land of the free...
...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...
...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 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...
...Lazaro Gonzalez had earlier defied a government order to hand the boy over at 2 p.m., declaring that "they will have to take this child from me by force." That marked an apparent shift from earlier in the week, when the standoff appeared set for an imminent end. The leading exile group, the Cuban American National Foundation, appeared Tuesday to have brokered a face-saving deal in which Elian would be reunited with his father at a meeting with Lazaro Gonzalez, but that deal was quickly abandoned later the same day. "Earlier this week it looked as though the foundation...
...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...