Remember Little Elian?
Filed under: Latinolicious > PolitikThis just goes to show you that anyone can be brainwashed.
Just eight years ago, Elian Gonzalez arrived in the United States sailing across on a small raft with his mother and several others.
Unfortunately, his mother passed away before making it to freedom, but the controversy of whether the child would stay in the US or be returned to Cuba became worldwide news.
Little Elian was forcefully taken against his will and that of his family's, and forced to return to Cuba with his estranged father.
Now, at the age of 14, Elian, like every other Cuban school boy, has been forced to join Cuba's Union of Young Communists
And of that, he is excited.
According to the Juventud Rebelde newspaper, Elian is very excited to join and has vowed to never let down Fidel and his brother, Raul.
Elian is now one of 18,000 boys joining the communist group.
He says, "We say to the leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro, and President Raúl Castro that they can rely on these valiant troops, that we will continue to follow their example and never disappoint them."
He adds, "Although it is an occasion for great joy, we also know that we are taking on a tremendous responsibility and there are great challenges to be faced in every school where we continue our studies, in order to become the educated individuals that our homeland needs."
Poor kid. At least he's well taken care of, unlike the many other Cubans on the island.
Miriam Yanet Martín, president of the José Martí Pioneros Organization, stated Elian "was a six-year-old boy who had been kidnapped by the Miami mafia and his father demanded his return to Cuban soil, the whole population rose up to demand his freedom, from the youngest schoolchild to the most elderly citizen."
Haha, yea right. The Miami Mafia?
We don't know the Miami Mafia, but we know the Miami Sound Machine!
wow, i thought we had seen the last of that kid. I lived in south Florida when all that happened and I was so sick of hearing about it every freakin day! he govt did the right thing and returned the kid to his father where he belonged. He never made it to land. End of story. It took far too long for him to be returned to his father.
You people are insane and badly need to do your research. But if you want to keep on living in your dream world of stupidity and ignorance, by all means do so. I just hope one day you realize all this shit you are talking without knowing THE TRUTH is BULLSHIT.
misti, BTW…the man hiding with him in .the closet is NOT his father. It was a family friend Donato Dalrymple. The Miami f
The Miami family had a photographer at the house because they knew what was coming and wanted controversy and chaos. I think they did him a great disservice. They weren't even direct relatives…they were once removed or some crap like that.
He's better off in Cuba than in this hell hole of a country!!!
Cuba is a great country, would even be better if america would stop its crippling embargos. You may not like the influx of cubans to your shores, but you gov't created the problem. Most cubans given the chance to prosper in there own country, would gladly flee america.
You people are fucking nuts. I don't understand how many people on here can say that they support Cuba and think the kid was better off there then he would have been in the United States. You all need pyschiatric help.
Elian mother lost her life at sea trying to give her son a chance for freeedom. She died doing so, but her boy made it to USA. Of course, his father in Cuba, which was already married to another woman and had another child, was obliged to ask for the boy back. This was not a family matter. It was Castro's ego to bring the boy back to Cuba. And now, this poor boy is a communist, a puppett of Castro and his brother.
He no longer has a mind of his own, or a mother to protect him. The job it's done. Congratulation to the Castro's brothers that since 1959 are the owners of Cuba and all his people.
Re: pNUT – Re - your query regarding a Canadian's view on Cuba -You can google that. I got a few meagre results. In 1994 the Liberal Government of Canada had a policy of constructive engagement with Cuba, believing that the policy was designed to support movement in the direction of peaceful transition, with full respect for human rights, genuinely representative government institutions, an open economy, and eventual reintegration into the hemisphere. Canada currently has a Conservative Government, but I couldn't find anything on its stand regarding Cuba. We can still visit freely at this time.
Although justified at the time considering the frightening spectre of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, IMHO, after 46 long years the embargo has not accomplished a more democratic reintegration of Cuba and its people.
Re: nycit – Except HERE (in the US), it is a choice to go into the army. Elian was most likely forced into it (AT 14!!) and wouldn't dare express a negative opinion about joining…. so okay maybe it isn't brainwashing, but he knows he has to fall in line.
Elian? Who cares!? Does anybody remember the more important fact that on the eve of 9-11 eight years ago, we were being fed a diet of 'news' including this kid, and Chandra Levy? Outside of Miami Cubans, nobody gives a rat's…
Another dirty Cuban!!!
Re: TRUTH – Wow, so you're saying Cuba is a very poor nation with an unreasonably tyrannic government? No, really? Really, we didn't know that..relax. This is about following a simple rule of decency: the concept that children belong with parents if at all possible. Elian was sent back to a crappy, poor nation, but he is with his father. I don't care if his father is a Communist. I don't care if his father is a homosexual. I don't care if his father smokes cigarettes. I don't care if his dad hits the old Methusalah Rum a little now and then. I don't care that his father happens to live in Cuba or Haiti or South Philly. You simply cannot deny a parent that presents no immediate danger to his or her child the opportunity to raise it if that is what they want. If the the rule of thumb is to ship kids away to the place where they had the most opportunity, we'd all have been Shanghai-ed to Switzerland (which has a much higher per capita income than the U.S.) or Finland (which has a much lower infant mortality rate than the U.S.). How can we presume we can decide the fate of a little boy better than his father?
i hate to break it to you, but the cubans do not say that he was taken by a miami mafia. i was just there for two weeks and every cuban is very aware of current and past history. they know why he was in the US in the first place. they know his mother tried to take him there. they know their government failed to provide for it's people when they so desperately needed aid. even if they have different feelings about communism in their own country, they at least have the story right. there is a lot you don't know about what the americans have done to the cuban people! there are always two sides to a story.
i hate to break it to you, but the cubans do not say that he was taken by a miami mafia. i was just there for two weeks and every cuban is very aware of current and past history. they know why he was in the US in the first place. they know his mother tried to take him there. they know their government failed to provide for it's people when they so desperately needed aid. even if they have different feelings about communism in their own country, they at least have the story right. there is a lot you don't know about what the americans have done to the cuban people! there are always two sides to a story.
ok wait a second
he comes to the US to flee from Cuba and find a better life.
Goes back and then makes a vow to be faithful or whatever to Casto..
what a load of BS!!!!
Yeah right!!!!!! The Cuban media is teeming with propaganda. He'll probably kill himself before he joins.
The government was absolutely right in giving him back to his father. He had every right to his son.
To Truth and Erin: I don't think the majority of us are saying he would have a better life in Cuba. Clearly he would have had more opportunities in the US. However, it comes down to parental rights. His father is the only one that had the right to decide were he should live, not third rate relatives and a bunch of crazy Miami Cubans. His father chose to take him back to Cuba and that's that.
would you rather him stay in the US where a GUN was forced in his face (see your photo above)
and im sure your ancestors are complete natives to the US, I know your not a fucking native american so people please stop with the whole illegal immigrant thing, makes you all sound stupid as fuck
also communism allows for everyone to have equal rights , unlike here
Anyone know if he's gay? If so, I can think of a great reason to visit Cuba in 4 years. That boy is going to grow up to be one incredibly handsome man!
Re: mike – You sir, are a prime example of an ignorant person who has no clue about what they are talking about. The "father" didn't give three shits about Elian until Castro and the government stepped in and made him "care" about his son. It was all a puppet show, and Castro won as he has for the past 50 or so years. Elian does not belong to his father, he belongs to the GOVERNMENT. And of course, since he is in the public eye, he is going to be treated marvelously for the rest of his life in Cuba (if he doesn't decide to flee one day). Why? To trick the ignorant fools like you into thinking that's how all of the citizens are treated. Castro and his government are evil and tyrannical, but they are also smart as hell because they've been able to pull the wool over you and other dumb ass people for so long.
SHUT UP PEREZ UR A BOURGEOISIE WHITE CUBAN, OF COURSE YOU WILL HATE THE PEOPLE'S REVOLUTION WHEN YOU, THE BOURGEOISIE, IS WHO THE SYSTEM IS DESIGNED TO ELIMINATE. VIVA LA REVOLUCION!!!
Um yeah, Mario this is the REAL Cuba. Not cell phones and free sex changes.
Miriam Yanet Martín is right, this child's father was a big part of his life and a loving Dad. The Miami Mafia needs to get a life - not every child living in Cuba is unwanted or unloved. He probably has a better standard of living than children here do - such as the one year old beaten to death before the police shot the abuser dead. He has a loving family, a good home and a better future than he would have had here with the people that kidnapped him in the name of "family."
Re: Mike – "And of course, since he is in the public eye, he is going to be treated marvelously for the rest of his life in Cuba"
Dude, you're kind of making my argument for me (see above). If I apply your logic: "If something benefits Fidel Castro, then it is wrong no matter what," we should stop all research into whatever gastro/cancer thing that's killing him in case they develop a cure that would also benefit millions of other people. Castro's not the winner here, the kid is.
It was also really classy to make a joke at the end of a story about a extremely serious and sad situation.
At least in Cuba he could BECAME A DOCTOR .. at the STATES JUST A DRUG DEALER OR A PIMP … perezito get your nose into what you know … media and gossips .. about POLICY SHUT THE FUCXXXX UP
obama is a communist, wants to redistribute wealth, socialized medicine, etc wake up people
Elian Gonzalez's mother didn't give one shit about her little boy and his "freedom." She was following her flavor of the month boyfriend to Florida, which resulted in her death, her boyfriend's death, and the miraculous recovery of Elian Gonzalez alive and breathing instead of being shark bait. Not only did she put her child in mortal danger for some dick, she had actually took him away from his father without his father's knowledge, in essence kidnapping him. So she kidnaps him and almost kills him. ~Real Good Mother~
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Some distant family members then claimed him and had the balls to incite a riot and wave CUBAN FLAGS in the USA in protest of his reuniting with his father!! If the USA is so great why the fuck not wave the American flag?
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The famous words of that fucked up younger woman who was acting as his surrogate mother saying to then attorney general Janet Reno "You aren't a mother, you don't know" shows where this little cuban sluts mind was. Janet Reno isn't a breeder. The little cuban slut wasn't at that point either. Maybe she should have gotten a puppy instead of a human, to get her priorities straight.
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I am in total agreement. The child is a Cuban and he has every right to love his country.
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The child belongs with his father. Period.
This puts me in mind of the Nazis and the Hitler youth. I hope there really are no connections between Cuba and out new president-to-be, as had been rumoured. Bush sucked as a president but we don't people who would associate with Nazi-like folk either.
Re: hill – Obama isn't a communist. People who promote false propaganda about him remind me a lot more of the cold war Russians.
Mario
So let me get this right. Elian's father is not his family, not indeed his CLOSEST family? When this happened, I got into an argument with a Cuban friend of mine. The entire incident highlighted the second-class status of fathers in the modern world. If the situation had been reversed, and Elian's father had died during the crossing from Cuba and his mother had been left in Havana, Elian wouldn't have been on Miami soil 48 hrs - he would have been shipped back to Cuba immediately. But because it was his father, he was assumed to be some sort of second-class parent, with no rights or love for his son. I don't like the fact that he had to go back to Cuba, but people keep forgetting that he went back to be with HIS FATHER!
Just because you got the shit end of the stick when it came to parents doesn't mean Elian did, you fucking hypocrite douchebag. Yeah, I'm pissed - there are good fathers out there, and it sounds like despite the irrational hatred that you may have for him, Elian's father is doing okay. As soon as you're a father to more than a rat-bastard little dog, then you get to open your stupid piehole and express an opinion that is more than half-formed.
Re: jen – Hey jen #96. when you said, for all of you non-cubans, in cuba you do what the goverment tells you, if they say everyone march and say you want Elian back you will march …
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Before I begin, for the record you mis-spelling of the word GOVERNMENT is your mis-spelling not mine, and your run-on sentence is your grammar not mine… and now ….
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I don't have much to say in reply to that, oh wise sage of all things Cuban, but I do have a question for you. Ready?
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If you have lived in the USA for the past 7 1/2 years, what the fuck has been going on here that is any different than that?
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That is all.
First of all I love your blog (its a fun escape) but please take note of this…Someone commented earlier and I do have to agree, I think it would be best to stay away from politics on this gossip blog. Too much of the commentary in regards to elian was incorrect for it to be a valid statement. I understand this is a gossip blog but please understand what you write before you write it. On a side note, the saying "Miami Mafia" does have some merit to it, especially considering the state of the Cuban-American community in Miami at time overshadowed by the power and influence of Jorge Mas Canosa of CANF. Though the CAC in Miami is no longer what is use to be after the Elian debacle and I would also say the death of Mas Canosa. So please be careful when you make comments about political issues.
. In regards to past blogs regarding reforms in Cuba under Raul, please note that many of these are more cosmetic than necessarily a significant leap toward democracy (which is not going to happen anytime soon). But is our democracy really the answer for Cuba? The Latin American culture is so different that our version of democracy may not work. Also Raul has made it abundantly clear that yes there is economic reform happening on the island but do not expect any political reform. His premier VP Machado Ventura is also an 'old school' hard liner communist leader, so political change cannot be expected with him either. If I remember correctly, Perez, you are Cuban-American. I think you should definitely research this topic more; its quite fascinating…
Re: misti –
Hi Misti-
I'm not being a bitch (for once), I just wanted to let you know that the closet where he was hiding in was his relatives in Miami. On Janet Reno's command, eight SWAT equipped agents of Border Patrol's BORTAC were sent to the house. When they got no response from inside the house they entered the house. Not only did they seize Elian at gunpoint (with a machine gun!) and maced and pepper sprayed any relative that tried to intervene.
To those of you (not you misti) who are not taking this soberly, that is incredibly heartless.
Elian needs to be with their father…he have a father…in case of his mother died…
Americans are more brainwashed than the Cubans…that's for sure…
Why are you assuming he has been brainwashed? By saying that, then you may also agree that some kids in the Army are also brainwashed. Age does not mean anything, but experience does.
Besides, how do you know about the conditions in Cuba? Have you lived there? If you haven't, there is nothing you can talk about.
Hes no different than a American boy growing and wanting to join the Marines and going to fight in a retarded no end war and shooting and killing innocent civilians cause your fucktard prez ordered him to.
Gays can't have babies, so they don't know from the attachment between a father and child, to say that it was wrong to return a son to his father, shows just how gay you are.
Re: Steph – at least Elian is not taking a gun againist those poor iraqis people or (worse) to their high school mates…don't you think
To force a young boy into the workings of a propaganda/illusion machine only produces the opposite effect of what was intended in the minds of mature people. Cuba has already advanced beyond these outdated and ineffectual methods, and the island, the nation, the world, are all maturing rapidly. Intelligence and freedom, this is the future.
Cubans are still smarter and healthier than Americans.
Why do you get involved with Politics Perez?
I think this whole thing sucked, our government didn't handle it properly and the whole thing turned into a circus. I also feel sorry for the little boy, and I think that Cuba is a heavily flawed government. That being said, I could help but think if the situation was reversed and a little American boy was taken away by one parent to a new country and then the other parents lost all rights. That would be wrong and immoral. As much as I am not a fan of Cuba, the son's father had every right to have his child returned to him. Even if he was not the primary caregiver. If you know divorced parents you can understand this, you aren't even allowed to move to another state without permission from a judge or forgoing joint custody. It is painful, but he should have gone back to his father, it would be immoral to place him with extended family members.
Re: Joan Crawford Bitch! – The Miami family left no choice. They were suppose to hand him over several times and they refused. Janet Reno bent over backwards for them. They didn't comply and they got their asses kicked in the end.
Im no fan of communism, but i do know that american cubans are some of the right wingiest/ jack offiest people on the planet. Elian is with his loving father, what a tragedy.
REGARDING: TRUTH, MIKE, MIKE & mike!
OKAY so the kid made it all the way from Cuba safe! SEND HIM BACK! First of all, regardless if the Kids dad is a FAG or just didnt give a shit about him, the kid belongs with his dad. MOM is dead its the Dad's turn to take care of HIS child.
Second! THE KID IS ILLIGAL! In that case lets start letting all the poor kids that sell chiclets in Tijuana come in to America, there Dads dont give a shit about them, and there moms are Homeless and prego on the streets.
P.S.
Cuba is really beautiful
I LOVE THIS SITE
Cuba was a destitute, poverty stricken, shithole before Castro took out that corrupt, mobster in a uniform Bautista (who also tortured and "disapeared" people). Cuba might have been a better place if the Kennedy brothers hadn't spent all their energy coverty blowing up industrial plants, destroying trucks, and destroying the crops. Ohh yeah, those little sanctions we enforce with our huge navy I'm sure really helps the Cuban people.
For all Castro's faults, and there are plenty that deserve our scorn, this blind hatred of Cuba and any social ideology in general is mindless brainwashing itself. The attention our government puts towards hurting Cuba in every way possible is sick and sadistic. The only time they ever came close to threatening us was during the Cuban Missle Crisis… although they never actually threatened to launch, it was the Russians… but can you blame the Cubans for seeking help from Russia after the Bay of Pigs?
Most of your fans are right Perez. I would stay out of foreign affairs until you catch up on some of your history reading.
THANK GOD THEY SHIPPED HIM BACK! I HATE FUCKING FORIENGERS! THEY FUCKING TAKING OVER THE UNITED STATES! FUCK THEM FUCKING SCUMBAGS.
Yeah too bad we didn't keep him… one less soldier to send to Iraq…. why is noone talking about inmigrants being sent to Iraq… they get brainwashed to join the Army promising they will never make it to Iraq and in a couple of months they are sent to fight for a country that is not even theirs… no doubt that would have been Elian's destiny if he was able to stay…
How about this Perez? You want to end the suffering in Cuba, END THE EMBARGO!!!!!! It makes no sense that we openly trade with China, which is still COMMUNIST, and we have cut Cuba off, it is stupid and insane policy. Once they get a little of the western money down there, the economy will change for the better.
This kid is amazing. what courage!! I hope he grows up to overthrow Cuba's communist leaders. Get Castro the fuck out of there already.
It shows you one more time that brainwashing works! So sad that his mother gave her life to save him and now he's just another puppet of the failed revolution!
Miami Mafia! you're right Perezhilton. Where's the Miami Mafia? We just know the Miami Sound Machine!
His father is his family, those "relatives" were very distant and he had never met them before the ordeal started, how can you deny a father his son just because you don't agree with his county's form of gov.. we have our own problems here lets not start judging other countries until we can fix our own.. stick to celb gosip perez & leave this to the real news
> We don't know the Miami Mafia, but we know the Miami Sound Machine!
SAME THING! EMILIO ES UN MAFIOSO!
He wanted to be with father and go back to Cuba- which was good for him.
He prob. is really happy and content and taken care of in Cuba more than we will ever be in America.
Don't be an ignorant American ya'll, it is certainly far from being the best country. heck I would rather be in Cuba than here~!
You know Perez, as much as I like you, you really should stop talking about politics. Do you have any idea at all what communism is all about? I mean like have you read a book about it? Coz I'm not talking about your government's propaganda against it. And you talk about brainwashing.
ok..Mario, all you immigrant cubans spew the same fanatic vitriol when it comes to cuba and castro. you know what? how dare you say that elian gonzales was "taken against his will." he was 6 freaking years old at the time. he had just lost his mother and his miami relatives were making a freaking circus out of his life. i'd be damn freaked out too if strangers with guns burst into the home i was living in the middle of the night and seized me. that has nothing to do with will. the boy has been happily living with his biological father who adores him for the past 8 years and that is right where he should be. politics does NOT trump parents. you can only rant like this because:
1. your i.q. is not very high
2. you're woefully uneducated
3. you're not a parent and have no clue what that bond means at all!
4. you're a fanatic anti-castro cuban american who is completely unobjective
5. you simply have no clue.
miami mafia+miami sound machine.
PART II
frankly, i only come to this site because unfortunately you have somehow managed to become "famous" and impressionable minds read this shit you put up here.
you know what you remind me of?
the mean girls in high school. you constantly contradict yourself on here. one minute you criticize someone for being too thin, the next for being too fat. you say nasty and spiteful and rude things about small children (dannielynn) and make fun of people with limited mental capacity (your favorite you-tube sensation tina)
i wonder if you EVER question what you do????
That kid's been a propaganda tool most of his life - for the Miami Cubans, for the Republicans (who used the gun-in-the-closet shot to criticize the Clinton administration as violent against children, hilarious considering what the Repubs have since done in Iraq), now for the Cuban Cubans. But he's 14, that's about the age you realize that grown-ups aren't omniscient or omnipotent, that in fact they're all idiots and insane.
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Speaking of insane idiocy, no one can prove Fidelismo is a failure feeding Cuba because the blockade makes the island's hunger unavoidable. Not only has the USA starved the Cuban proletariats while CP bigwigs stayed fat and happy, we've legitimized a system that probably would have failed on its own. Smart!
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In the meantime, the USA has fallen directly because of capitalism's excesses. Since capitalism is a pyramid scheme that requires a 3% growth for maximum functionality, it almost has to become imperialism.
Also the greed - for SUVs, even though SUV owners knew that they were consuming more than their share of a precious, limited resource needed by all human beings. The greed that forced us into the Middle East, the greed that keeps us swilling gasoline even now, since we never bothered to build a comprehensive public transport system for the poor. Smart!
Yeah, Elian. He'll get to hear the Miami Cubans' side of the story - where he never knew his dad before the Miami escapade, how they really cared about him, etc. He already knows the Cuban side of the story. He was there, he'll remember the truth. And he can use that veracity or mendacity to judge two entire political-economic systems arguing that they are the true path to human survival and happiness.
shoulda let that little shit drown when we had the chance
if communism is such a threat to our democratic republic why oh why does this country do trillions of dollars in business with Red China?
Cuba is on the receiving end of a blockade but this country ships trillions of dollars to the largest Communist country in the world!
take a look in your closet, your cabinets and your home office, EVERYTHING you own is made in China.
Haitian refugees are detained in prison and all but tossed back into the ocean, Cuban refugees receive a life time of handouts.
Is this news? Even the illegals that stay here hate this place.
Little Elian doesn't look like he's feeling the U.S. love in the top picture.
Fuck you, Perez. Elian looks to be a fine young man and if he chooses to stay a member of the Communist Party, then more power to him. He has a right to choose what he wants to be - yes, Cuba lets you do that. If he'd been forced to stay with his psycho relatives and NOT allowed to return to his father and the country of his birth, you can absolutely bet he'd have been forced to become a tool of those fuck-tard, so-called "Cubans" in Miami who are so consumed with hate for Cuba. FACT - Bautista was a dictator who only cared for his rich cronies and trampled the rights of the "peasant." "Peasant" was anyone who didn't fork over bribes and payola to Bautista's government. You know, the farmers, fishermen, flower-sellers, fruit-pickers… No, I guess you'd have no idea of that, Perez. Elian belonged with his father. His fuck-twit mother cared so little for him she kidnapped him and put his young life at serious risk, thinking only of herself and her "boyfriend." Viva la revolucion!
you have no right to put those comments perez.. democracy and communism and every form of government have their negatives and positives.. we are fucked either way…
Re: A –
With all due respect, this situation was handled terribly by so many people; his family, the Cuban Government, and of course, by our own government. However, as Attorney General, she was in charge and royally botched the situation. Tension between the U.S. and Cuba hadn't been that high since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Between the Elian debacle and Waco, she has gone down as one of the worst Attorney Generals in History.
sorry, i just wanted to see what my picture looked like in a comment
Sad though…
why is he brain washed?
maybe he is just a comunist… you know we are not the monsters most ignorant people think we are
this isn't what went down 8 years ago. the elian issue was not a matter of capitalism vs. communism, it was a simple child custody dispute, and the u.s. government did the right thing by sending him back. elian's mother basically kidnapped him and risked their lives by bringing them to the U.S. so she would not have to share custody of her son with her husband. elian and his father were not "estranged." also, a 6 year old boy cannot have a will; if there was any brainwashing going on, it was on the part of his distant relatives in miami who took him to disney world and bought him shitloads of toys. the right-wing cuban exile community in miami basically used elian as a symbol for their cause. when elian's father came to the u.s. (with permission from castro, who said he could stay there if he wanted to), he told madeline albright that he did not want to raise his son in a capitalistic country, and that he believed in the ideals of the revolution. when you look back on it it's a little absurd that this got blown out of proportion like it did- elian belonged with his father, and his father got to decide where he wanted to raise his son. end of story.
Well, I'd probably join that too after what happened to him in America.
Cuba should stay the same as it was before! At least they all hve rules and regulations! It keeps them all in line. Everyone needs to have strict rules to follow. Otherwise…things get WAY out if control.
Mario, que gorda mas puta y fea eres, chica. Dedicate a la farandula. Eso es lo tuyo. En cuanto a la politica, no sabes ni mierda.
Re: meat –
I completely respect your opinion meat, I just have some things to say. After Castro seized power from Fulgencio Batista and takes over Cuba, he allies himself with the Soviet Union. About a year and a half into his DICTATORSHIP, he gives a big fuck you to the U.S. due rampant anti-Americanism after the 1903 signing of the Platt-Amendment (interpret it as you will and be conscious of the timeline . Regardless of how the Kennedy brothers handled the situation, Russia, being that they were in bed with Cuba had a whole lotta missiles pointed in our direction. The partnership between Cuba and Russia really had to do with the fact that they hated us (and still do). Castro is one who cut of ties with us, not the other way around. All I know, is that my mother has said that was the only time she feared for her life and they had to practice hiding under their desks in case of an attack.
I am so glad that a lot of people haven't bought into the whole cuban lie. I call it lie because even though I am not communist or cuban, I can see that they the cubans are racist against Amerindians from other countries like mexico to the south. They are racist whether they admit or not. Also theyr'e full of bs, not all of them but the great majority. They should be sending thank you cards to fidel because thanks to him they have a priviledge position here in the USA and they are granted residency immediately. They;'ve brainwashed the USA government into thinking Fidel is the bad guy. Please!
Re: jessy – maybe because he has a gun in his face, you fucking moron.
Re: Olina – sweety, reading a book about communism and living through it first hand and knowing family that has are two completely different things. communism looks beautiful and fair on paper. but guess what? when put into use, it does not work. there is always going to be the factor of human greed and castro has made it so that he and his people live like kings while the rest of the cuban populations live and are teated like dogs with no minds of their own. before you start telling people they don't know what they're talking about, analyze yourself. YOU don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
Re: meat – poverty stricken before castro?! WHAT?! LOL!! what evidence do you have? that was the biggest BULLSHIT i've read in a while! damn, you are one idiot!!
Viva Cuba carajo!
All fucking Cuban monkeys should be sent back to their shitty homeland I hate you fucking Cuban monkeys!!
…unlike many cubans on the island??? etes vous retarde? cuba has like free great health care, didnt you say they get free sex changes too? watch Sicko please and thanks.
Poor Elian! To think his mother sacrificed her life to give him a chance at not being a robot. Oh, well, this should prepare us to unite as Cuban-Americans and do things smarter if any of this situatuions ever arise again. To think he had almost the whole exile backing his staying here. Then democrats wonder why we don't trust them or only a minority of Cuban-Americans vote for them.
you don't know what you are talking about, torgs. Elian's mother suffered death because she knew how Castro is and the communist system, it's very dumb of you to talk when you live here in comfort.
Re: Carin – You are a very envious person and it is sad that you live in such as beautiful city such as Miami. I feel very sorry for you and by the way what you mentioned about Cubans makes you just as racist as those whites who did not want Blacks to be incorporated into social framework of the US during the Jim Crow period. Viva Cuba Libre!
Wow Perez, so you think he should have been separated from his father? His father is his rightful guardian and closest family, regardless of the country he is from. Shame on you.
Who gives a rat's ass about some nastly ILLEGAL ALIEN trying to break into our country? We did the right thing by sending his ass back home! If he had stayed here, he would have been just like every other broke ass ILLEGAL taking advantage of the USA…looking for a free ride! We need to send all these poor ass mother F_ckers back to where they came from!
Wah, wah, wah, Communism…
Blah, blah, blah, Cuba…
I'm glad he went back. He needed to be with his family regardless of who lived where, when.
Every other poor soul who steps on this great country's soil has to go back to where they came from once they're busted, if they arrived illegally. How are Cubans any different?
Or special? Yeah. I went there.
Get over yourself already…not everyone is guaranteed the American dream JUST because they manage to get here. Just ask anyone born here and living below the poverty line.
I'd like to point out that Elian's "Loving" father did NOT give a shit about him.
He had a separate family without Elian… that is why he was on a raft with his mother. His mother risked and lost her life, so her son could be with the "Miami mafia" his family and live a better life. Very few people understand what its like in Cuba…. nothing like it's portrayed in the movie "Sicko" by Michael Moore.
"Brainwashed is exactly right… "
You are so fucking stupid. His fam was in Cuba the people you call his "family" here he barely knew. That fucking cousin was like a 3rd cousin twice removed. Come on man if his mother died who should he stay with some fucking dumb ass people that did nothing but get rich of off him. Cause that is what they did living in little Havana driving a nice Lexus from a opening businesses. These people had nothing before this kid came they better be grateful he came and left or may be they are sad the goose is gone. Good for him!!!!!
I remember that shit. I always wondered what happened to him….
Perez, grow up. I was one of the MILLIONS of Americans who cheered when Elian was sent back to his responsible parent. The only people who wanted him here are the BRAINWASHED Cuban Americans (and their kids) of Miami (I'm talking to you, Andy Garcia and Gloria Esteban!), and the Americans with the outdated OMIGOD CUBANS = BAD mentality from the Cold War.
Yet another stain on Clinton's presidency…
Poor Elian?!!! Perez, be for real! ELIAN GONZALEZ shall one day be PRESIDENT OF CUBA!…mark my words…funny gal said it first!
CUBA SI!
CASTRO NO!
elian, mi hijo, miami esta con tigo!
I was 11 when Elian was snatched from his family. Yes, I understand that he should be with is father but his mother had legal custody of him and this was her dying wish. I bet that if the parents were married at this time, Elian would of stayed in the United States. I hope that Elian can grow up and understand what happend and realize that Fidel is a bad man.
All of you people who are hating on this dont know how it feels to never be able to see your family or your homeland.
You know what Perez, you're bizarre. Just because someone doesn't agree with your way of thinking, you attack them and claim them to be brainwashed?! If anyone said you must be brainwashed for being gay or whatever, you'd go mental, yet you are so ready to use this criticism towards people who don't agree with you politically?! Grow up please, if you opened your eyes you might see what is really wrong with the world.
Re: TRUTH –
You hit the nail right on the head. To me, as well, it's as plain as day what the REAL Cuba is. Hopefully people will read what you wrote and take it to heart.