Elián Gonzalez: "I'm Involved with the work of the Revolution"

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In class today we were discussing Elián Gonzalez, I had never heard of his name prior to class. I learned that he was born in 1993 in Cuba his parents were divorced and in 1999 his mother brought him when she escaped Cuba and the Castro regime. Unfortunately, his mother passed away on the boat they were on trying to flee Cuba, Florida fishermen found 5-year-old Elián floating on an inner tube. His family members wanted him to stay in the US but his father who was back in Cuba and had parental rights wanted his son back with him in Cuba and he was sent back by the Clinton administration in 2000.

The article I found was published towards the middle of last year going into detail about specifically happened to Elián when he was younger. It gave information on his background story and how he is using his publicity from what happened to him when he was 5 to speak up during the Cuban Revolution. Elián's case is very well known, it took two years for the US and Cuba to decide whether he should be sent back or stay in the US. The article goes into detail sharing how Elián was very important in Cuba as he got older and the position he took during the revolution.

I thought it was interesting learning about Elián and how his life was drastically changed.

how https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/15/world/cuba-elian-gonzalez-update/index.html

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