Posted on 04/05/2010 2:14:34 PM PDT by traumer
HAVANA (AP) - Cuba has released photos of one-time exile cause celebre Elian Gonzalez wearing an olive-green military school uniform and attending a Young Communist Union congress.
Gonzalez, now 16 with closely cropped black hair, is shown serious-faced with fellow youth delegates during last weekend's congress at a sprawling and drab convention center in western Havana. The images were posted Monday on Cuban government Web sites, then widely picked up by electronic, state-controlled media.
When he was 5, Elian was found floating off the coast of Florida in an inner tube after his mother and others fleeing Cuba drowned trying to reach the U.S. Elian's father, who was separated from his mother, had remained in Cuba.
U.S. immigration officials ruled the boy should return to Cuba over the objections of his Miami relatives and other Cuban exiles, creating a national furor that caused even presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore to weigh in on the matter.
His relatives refused to give him up. Federal agents raided the Little Havana home of his uncle with guns drawn 10 years ago this month and seized the boy from a closet to return him to his father.
Elian was celebrated as a hero in Cuba upon his return and his father, restaurant employee Juan Miguel Gonzalez, was elected to parliament—a seat he retains today.
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Elian GonzaleZ holds a Cuban flag during the UJC, Union of Young Communists, congress in Havana Sunday April 4, 2010. Gonzalez, the Cuban boy at the center of an international custody battle 10 years ago in April 2000, attended Cuba's Young Communist Union wearing an olive green military school uniform.
He is now a good little commie.
he looks kinda sad...
When will we get our snappy uniforms... ??
They’ll have to put mine on me in a casket.
I know that whole situation made all of us sad. (It’s what brought me to FreeRepublic.com.)
;o)
I’m sure Obami’s got someone working on it...
He waves the Cuban flag like a Democrat waves the flag of the United States ... half-heartedly.
Looks like the intervention didn’t take.
Heartbreaking. This young man will never understand or know Liberty and freedom. And now our children are heading for the same fate.
Wonder if Elian knows that his mother lost her life getting him to freedom.
Wonder if Elian knows that his father was flown here along with his new wife, but kept from talking to ANY senators or congressmen that would have requested asylum for him and his wife by clinton and the reno nutcase and gregg craig (who SHOWED of ELIAN to his friends at a cocktail party) and other freaks who wanted to make sure that ELian's father really wanted to be in Cuba...even Senator Smith was NOT ALLOWED on Andrews AFB to talk to him.
He's tasted freedom...
same here, babyfreep
No matter how brainwashed the kid is now, he has to have memories of his mother dying to get them to America.
Singing....
Mmmm mmm mmmm
Fidel Castro
Mmmm mm mmmm
“Silent and terrified, the animals crept back into the barn. In a moment
the dogs came bounding back. At first no one had been able to imagine
where these creatures came from, but the problem was soon solved: they
were the puppies whom Napoleon had taken away from their mothers and
reared privately. Though not yet full-grown, they were huge dogs, and as
fierce-looking as wolves. They kept close to Napoleon.”
~~ “Animal Farm,” by George Orwell, Chapter V.
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