Posted on 12/07/2013 10:30:54 AM PST by Innovative
Elian Gonzalez, the focus of a bitter international custody dispute after he was rescued at sea as a child, left Cuba on Friday for the first time since 2000, when the U.S. government returned him to the island.
Gonzalez, who also turned 20 on Friday, traveled to Quito, Ecuador, as part of a 200-member Cuban delegation to a weeklong youth conference there.
"Fidel Castro for me is like a father," Gonzalez said in the recent interview. "I don't profess to have any religion but if I did my God would be Fidel Castro. He is like a ship that knew to take his crew on the right path."
Now a military cadet studying industrial engineering, Gonzalez said he would have suffered had he stayed in the United States.
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” I don’t wish her ill, at least I no longer do. “
Actually I do wish that all involved in the “legal” kidnapping of Elian — from Clinton on down to get justice for their crimes, because what they did to Elian WAS a crime.
I’d give odds that he takes his own life one day.
Either that or makes the break and drags his poor soul back to the U.S.
It’s like someone who commits murder and avoids punishment, or foully betrays a friend or family member...it’s hard to live under that kind of great lie.
I think Elian is truly special — he managed to survive through all the ordeals, but he didn’t forget — it takes a very strong person to do that.
It would be hard to top Waco and Ruby Ridge. Maybe the intentional bombing of Serbian civilians.
They certainly know what it's about.
Castro’s getting up in age.
I wonder whether there will be any elections post-Castro, and I also wonder whether Elian might figure in those.
Heck. Just wondering is all.
Communism at it's finest - the state is God. It's what liberals want.
Check out the comments after the link and see the liberals there bashing America and democratic governments and praising socialism. One guy in particular is praising the free healthcare Cuba provides. That's CNN's readership I suppose.
“Check out the comments after the link and see the liberals there bashing America and democratic governments and praising socialism. One guy in particular is praising the free healthcare Cuba provides.”
I would encourage them to move there, if they like it so much...
I could have sworn she had Parkinson’s.
Janet Reno does have Parkinson’s — it was definitely in the news way back.
1984.
Has anyone ever ID’d the doosh storm trooper wannabee?
Is that you Lon Tomohisa Horiuchi in drag?
Damned Stasi! Gestapo! KGB!
Wouldn’t it be ‘funny’ if the boy defected AGAIN, and this time ended up at the Equadorean Embassy one cushioned chair away from Assange? He couldn’t (openly) go to Russia and Pal-Around with Eric Snowden eating black caviar, drinking vodka, since Cuba is sort of a Mini-Me version of Old Russia anyway. If Elian dared to skip away today, Castro and the gang would be capital F furious, and hellbent on making this troublemaker disappear forever.
Great point.
I’ve noticed that Democrats never have any trouble deporting little children....or killing them.
Then-Cuban leader Fidel Castro led massive protests on the island demanding Gonzalez's return. The case of the telegenic boy became a flashpoint between supporters and opponents of Castro's revolution.
I visited Cuba, talked to many people around town, learned that Cubans hate Castro, but have to show up at rallies to shout Down with America and all that junk. They are not stupid, they know they are powerless puppets of that incredibly evil regime. All of them know that Castro would not have lasted five years if the people were armed. But of course, guns were confiscated the minute Castro set foot in the presidential palace.
I went with three liberal friends who all changed their minds about owning guns, since Cuba was such a disaster.
Holder did work for Janet Reno? Gad he’s a real turd, isn’t he?
Will we have another?
Yep, Gonzales = poster child for gun ownership
You never played Counter-Strike?
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