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1. In November of 1999, Elian was rescued from a boat accident that killed his mother and ten other cuban immagrents that were trying to reach Florida. Elian Gonzalez was the son of two devorced parents, Juan Miguel González and Elizabet Broton Rodríguez, were both natives of Cardenas, Cuba. The couple divorced in 1991 after six years of marriage but continued their efforts to have a child until 1993, when Elián was born.

In a town used to tales of miraculous escapes from Castro’s Cuba; the Elian Gonzalez story was over the top. A fragile, angelic-looking boy was found clinging to an inner tube on Thanksgiving day by fishermen in the Gulf Stream off Fort Lauderdale. The 5 year-old boy was one of three Cuban nationals who survived after being tossed into the sea when their boat capsized as they fled Cuba. Eleven others on the boat - including the boy’s mother - perished.

Some saw the boy’s survival as a miracle of God: he was unscathed after two days in the water.

Ten years ago this month, the saga of Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban boy rescued at sea on November 25, 1999, was moving quickly towards its climax.

The boy’s story was compelling, even to the most cynical observer.

“It was a perfect storm,” says WFOR reporter Jim DeFede, who covered the Elian saga as a staff writer at Miami New Times. “Not even the recent reports of Fidel Castro’s death touched off the sort of passion that the Elian story did,” says DeFede.

Elian Gonzalez, during his fateful voyage across the sea, was gently carried to safety by a gaggle of ageless dolphins after his virgin mother died delivering him to this New World. Elian, now being produced in plastic form as an action figure and in commodity form as a Beanie Baby, was never real in the first place. Never a real citizen, though he did receive a real welcome to America and was carried ashore and given temporary accommodations, as any real non-citizen has the right to.

April 5, 2010 - Ten years after his kidnapping and forced return to Cuba, Elian González is now a member of the army that keeps in place the military dictatorship from which his own mother tried to escape.

Elian's mother gave her life to make sure that Elian was able to grow in a free country, where he was free to study, express his opinions without going to jail, work for whoever he wanted, start his own business if he chose to do that, in other words, live like a free man.

But her sacrifice was in vain.

I think the story of Elian Gonzalez is related to the story heat because of the the fact that his parents are dead and he gets handed over to child protected services and goes the rest of his life with no parents.

Elian Gonzalez

April 5, 2010 - Ten years after his kidnapping and forced return to Cuba, Elian González is now a member of the army that keeps in place the military dictatorship from which his own mother tried to escape.

Elian's mother gave her life to make sure that Elian was able to grow in a free country, where he was free to study, express his opinions without going to jail, work for whoever he wanted, start his own business if he chose to do that, in other words, live like a free man.

But her sacrifice was in vain.

  • About ten years ago, Elian Gonzalle, his mother, and ten other Cuban immigrants were on a boat escaping Cuba and heading for Florida. When they got cought in a huge storm, his mother and ten other cubans were thrown off of the boat and drowned. then a couple years later, Family members kept fighting about who ets custidy of him.
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