ELIAN GONZALEZ: Then and Now

Co-sgn with Anon. But I'd also like to add:Two things always struck me about the “Little Elian Gonzalez Saga in America.”First: The ANGLO-Cuban community in Florida (including his “extended family”) _aided shamelessly by the American MEDIA_did their damndest to present little Elian as “a symbol of the struggle of ordinary Cubans to flee the oppression of Fidel Castro's communist regime.”But the truth is: What the ANGLO-Cuban community in Florida (AND GOP politicians in their pockets) put THAT CHILD and his father through was “a sin and a shame before God”! That poor child was USED in the most cynical of ways to serve the ANGLO-Cuban community’s OWN SELF-serving agenda. Cuban families who enjoyed wealth and “Privilege” BEFORE Castro took over had beat a HASTY retreat for Florida shores at his rise to power. But many of them NEVER stopped dreaming of getting “their” country_AND WEALTH_back. The unfortunate plight of little… Read more »