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...arrived to carry Elizabet and Elian to the promised land was no Cigaret-boat pro. Lazaro Munero, 24, was a maceta, a hustler. He had been seeing Elizabet since 1997, when she was divorced from Elian's father. In the summer of 1998, Munero and three friends made the trip to America on a tiny boat. But that autumn he returned to Cuba--heartsick, relatives say, to be away from his family and Elizabet. He was thrown in jail, but a few months months later, after his release, he began working to persuade Elizabet to join him on a second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Big Battle For A Little Boy | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

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