Right up there with the bloodbath at Waco IMNSHO.
Posted on 06/15/2008 11:58:44 AM PDT by Glenn
HAVANA, Cuba (AP) -- The Cuban boy at the center of an international custody battle eight years ago has joined Cuba's Young Communist Union.
Elian Gonzalez said he will never let down ex-President Fidel Castro and his brother Raul Castro, according to the Communist youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde.
Raul Castro succeeded Fidel as president earlier this year.
Now 14, Elian was 6 when his relatives in Miami, Florida, lost their fight to keep him in the United States and he was returned to Cuba in mid-2000 with his father.
Elian had survived a boating accident off the Florida coast that killed his mother, who was attempting to get to the U.S.
Juventud Rebelde says in its Sunday edition that the boy was among 18,000 people who joined the group Saturday.
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after what he experienced in Reno’s South Florida, I can’t blame his adolescence for hating it.
Just goes to show that if you get ‘em while they’re young....poor kid. Years later and I still can’t believe they sent him back.
As one of the Cuban elites little Elian probably has a cell phone and computer too ...while the rest of the Cuban people are living in third world conditions.
Like the poor kid had a choice on whether to join or not to join.
Communists still objective to brainwash youth.
It’s not coincidental the youth vote for NObomba. Whatever it takes to fool the young and naive who’ve yet to have a real job and pay taxes, yet still get to vote.
What a failure of the Clintons
Nice going Ms. Reno....send this kid back to Cuba so he can be brainwashed and grow up hating America....
However sad the story, illegal = illegal.
This is a mandatory membership, it’s not voluntary. There is absolutely no alternative, they all have to join (was standard practice in former Eastern European countries).
Apparently she wanted him to grow up just like her.
Right up there with the bloodbath at Waco IMNSHO.
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IIRC, he reached US soil and wa eligible to stay here because of the ‘dry foot’ exception for Cubans. It was his father, as Elian’s sole surviving parent, being sent by Fidel that created the problem and Reno caved in to that.
I wonder what happened to that American Storm Trooper who blasted his way into Elian’s bedroom, gun pointed and then slithered away into the night. I hope he hasnt had a peaceful day since.
“Elian Gonzalez said he will never let down ex-President Fidel Castro and his brother Raul Castro, according to the Communist youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde.”
Janet Reno’s legacy.
Make it small enough so that it fits on your screen.
His father and family are getting big perks. I put no stock in what he says now or ever.
Argh! Should be removed!
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