Elián González, the Cuban national whose precarious boyhood arrival in the U.S. in 1999 prompted a fierce international custody battle, is set to become a lawmaker. González was nominated by ...
The boy’s Miami relatives argued if he went back to Cuba, he would become a brainwashed trophy for Castro in his long-running feud with the US. As the two sides fought out the high-profile case ...
Elián Gonzalez, the 6-year-old boy found floating on an inner tube off the coast of South Florida in 1999, was sworn into Cuba’s National Assembly this week. Chuck Todd breaks down Gonzalez’s ...
Elian Gonzalez, 29, has progressed from the child whose 1999 family crisis became an unwitting symbol of the breakdown of Washington-Havana relations to becoming a candidate for a seat in Cuba's ...
Tug-of-war across the Straits of Florida Florida was the scene of another riveting legal drama -- the saga of young Elian Gonzalez. The Cuban boy arrived in South Florida on Thanksgiving Day 1999.
After one song titled "Baby Elian ... Gonzalez returned from the United States, Castro stood and applauded, presumably in recognition of the Manic Street Preachers' sympathy with the Cuban ...
Former Cuban Foreign Minister and Chairman of the ... including during the legal battle for the return of shipwrecked child Elian Gonzalez in 2000. Alarcón was not directly involved in the ...
RNS Daily Digest c. 2000 Religion News Service Vatican offers to help return Elian Gonzalez to his father (RNS) The Vatican confirmed Thursday (April 13) that at the request of the United States ...
is the unicameral parliament of the Republic of Cuba. It is currently composed of 605 representatives who are elected from multi-member electoral districts for a term of five years. The current ...
A refurbished oil refinery set to begin production next December could turn Cuba from a net import dependent to an oil refined products exporters, according to the official press in Havana.
“A religion that used to be, you know, dominantly practiced by descendants of Africans or people of African descent has now become a multiracial religion in Cuba,” Hansing said. “Santería ...
It is not just any judoka who has just become Romanian . It is the 32-year-old Cuban Asley Gonzalez, Olympic runner-up in London 2012 and world champion in Rio de Janeiro 2013. Gonzalez ...
