Elian Gonzalez set to become Cuban lawmaker
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cnn ^
| 02/09/2023
Elián González, the Cuban boy whose custody battle stoked Cold War-era tensions, has been nominated to serve in the island’s National Assembly, the communist-party daily Granma said Monday. The newspaper referred to González, now 29, as “representing the most worthy of the Cuban youth.” González’s
nomination all but secures his post in the 470-seat National Assembly that meets several times a year to discuss proposed laws, which the body usually votes unanimously to approve. Under Cuban law, municipal assemblies nominate a single candidate to the National Assembly, which then Cubans can either ratify or vote against. Serving in the National...
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Elian Gonzalez Poised To Become Lawmaker After Nomination To Cuba's National Assembly
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Huffington Post ^
| 2/7/2023 | Marco Margaritoff
Gonzalez, who became the center of an international custody battle at 5 years old, was nominated Sunday to Cuba's National Assembly. Elian Gonzalez, 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. Gonzalez
was nominated by his local municipal assembly on Sunday to serve in Cuba's National Assembly... Gonzlaez was en route to Florida with his mother when their boat capsized on Thanksgiving 1999 and she and other migrants drowned. The boy's fate thereafter became a flashpoint in U.S.-Cuba relations. His father, a waiter named...
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Syria - Father Jacques Mourad: the Monastery of Mar Elian, Devastated by Jihadists, Could Soon Return to Being a Place of Prayer and Peace
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Agenzia Fides ^
| 12/28/21
Quaryatayn (Agenzia Fides) - The ancient Monastery of Mar Elian, located on the outskirts of the Syrian city of Quaryatayn, which in 2016 had been devastated and desecrated by jihadist militiamen, could soon return to being a place of prayer and peace for the Syrian Christians and also for their fellow Muslim
destinies. It was announced with joy by Father Jacques Mourad, the monk of the community of Deir Mar Musa who was kidnapped in Mar Elian on May 21, 2015 by a commando of jihadists of the self-styled Islamic State, and lived long months of imprisonment, first in isolation...
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"Send Him Back" Dems Told Elian Gonzalez at Gunpoint
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Flopping Aces ^
| 07-20-19 | Daniel John Sobieski
Kudos to Humberto Fontova over at TownHall.com for reminding us of another time when liberals weren’t so kind to refugees seeking asylum while fleeing genuine repression and poverty. Then
even the New York Times and parallel universe occupant Thomas Friedman supported secure borders to the point even a bitter clinger might blush: ''America is a country where the rule of law rules. This picture (a U.S. Marshall pointing a genuine assault rifle at a terrified 6 year old Hispanic immigrant, whose mother had just drowned or been eaten alive by sharks) illustrates what happens to those who defy the rule...
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Brett Kavanaugh Fought the Clinton/Castro Kidnapping of Elian Gonzalez back to Stalinist Cuba
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Townhall ^
| 07/14/2018 | Humberto Fontova
If we needed more proof (atop the media panic) that President Trump nominated the right SCOTUS candidate here it is: “Kavanaugh represented, on a pro bono basis, six-year-old Elian Gonzalez after the Immigration and Naturalization Service decided to return him to Cuba. Kavanaugh was among a series of lawyers who sought legal
injunctions to stop INS…from sending the boy back to Cuba…” Whoops! I already hear the caterwauling about “separating immigrant children from their parents!” So let’s clear that up first: The genuine issue during the Elian Gonzalez circus had NOTHING to do with “parental rights,” as the Castro/Fake News...
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Elian Gonzales forcibly removed by Clinton’s AG Janet Reno and burning children alive in Waco!
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6 /19/18 | Self
Could someone who is great at digging out old pics and stories, find both pictures and stories of how Pres. Bill Clinton (and his pure and innocent wife Hillary) forcibly removed Elian Gonzalez as well as burning children alive at Waco?If you are really so inspired, how ‘bout stories and attendant photos
of the 14 year old boy at Ruby Ridge, shot in the back by the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Sniper as well as Mrs. Randy Weaver in the forehead while holding her baby?
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[Vanity]Elian Gonzalez as Trump DACA Victim mockup
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Self Vanity ^
| 7 September 2017 | Self
Enjoy and pass along to your moonbat friends.
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CNN Doubles-Down on Fake News with a Fake Film about Elian Gonzalez
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Townhall.com ^
| August 26, 2017 | Humberto Fontova
Thursday night CNN (the first Fake News outlet bestowed a “press” bureau by Cuba’s totalitarian regime) ran a “documentary” on Elian Gonzalez. You know that look on your pooch’s face when he promptly fetches a Frisbee, tail-waggingly returns it, and you’re massaging his face and neck while cooing: “GOOD-BOY!” Well, please don’t
take this personally, amigos: but (very briefly) picture your joy and gratification in the pooch-scene on the faces of Castroite apparatchiks-- and your quivering, slobbering, tail-wagging pooch as CNN. CNN really outdid themselves this time. They satisfied every lust of their Cuban suitors, ignoring over 15 years of...
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Elian Gonzalez was a Dreamer Too
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American Thinker ^
| February 20, 2017 | Daniel John Sobieski
The fake news that the Trump administration was “considering” using 100,000 National Guardsmen to round up illegal aliens has been thoroughly debunked by now, except in the minds of those who screech, “But, but, there was a memo!” Well,
the memo, as the Independent Journal Review reported, was a DHS draft memo that was never put forward for serious consideration. Nor did it mention the figure 100,000, The hyperventilating Associated Press put the fake news out that it was an actual plan one smidgeon short of an imminent executive order. President Trump said the report was false. The Pentagon said...
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Elian Gonzalez Mourns Death of Fidel Castro
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NBC Miami ^
Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban boy who was involved in an international custody battle 16 years ago in Miami, is mourning the death of Fidel Castro, a man he compared to a "father." Elian
was a photogenic five-year-old in 1999 when he was found floating on an inner tube off the Florida coast. Sixteen years later, he is recalling Fidel Castro as a man he likened to a father. In an interview on Cuban State TV Saturday, he said he wanted Fidel to be proud of him. Speaking in Spanish, he said, "He is a father who like my father, I...
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Former Cuban castaway Elian Gonzalez recalls his connection with Fidel Castro: 'Fidel was everyone
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nydailynews.com ^
| 11/27/16 | Dan Good
full title............Former Cuban castaway Elian Gonzalez recalls his connection with Fidel Castro: 'Fidel was everyone's friend'................................. Tweet email Elian Gonzalez — the Cuban boy who was found floating off the coast of Florida in 1999, sparking an international custody dispute — recalled his friendship with former president Fidel Castro, who died Friday
at age 90. Gonzalez, 22, spoke to Cuban state media in Spanish on Saturday, reflecting on his experiences with Castro. He recalled the leader attending his sixth-grade graduation — when Castro told an audience about their friendship. "At first, it was an extraordinary honor, but also a heavy...
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How the Clintons Fooled America with Elian Gonzalez
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Townhall.com ^
| August 29, 2016 | Humberto Fontova
''I believe personally that this little boy (Elian Gonzalez) should be with his father…but I also believe that this is not a decision that politicians should be making. I
wish everybody would take a deep breath, and a step back, and let's try to get this child into a safe, permanent, loving, unexploited home and family as soon as possible.'' (Hillary Clinton April 4, 2000.)Let the record show that most Americans approved of the Clinton-Castro shanghaiing of Elian Gonzalez. A 60 Minutes “interview” of Elian’s father Juan Miguel by Dan Rather played a key role in this expert snookering of...
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The Elian Gonzalez Travesty: Where Was Hillary?
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The American Spectator ^
| March 11, 2016 | Paul Kengor
[snip]..Elian awoke to be spotted by two fishermen. He
was brought safely to American shores, vindicating the sacrifice his mother made. She literally gave her life for him. He was free at last.Or so he hoped.Elian was taken in by relatives honoring his mother’s wishes. The story immediately made international headlines, and then Fidel descended, holding a staged press conference in Havana with Elian’s (divorced) father. Obviously not free to speak his mind, Elian’s dad demanded the child’s return.What would the Clinton administration do? What would President Bill Clinton, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Attorney General Janet Reno, do?As...
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Ted Cruz Calls Elian Gonzalez Saga “A Sad Day For Americaâ€
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BuzzFeed ^
| Jan. 13, 2016 | Andrew Kaczynski
"You saw the federal government sending stormtroopers with machine guns to grab a six-year-child whose mother had died trying to give him freedom and instead for us to send him back to Fidel Castro." Texas Sen. Ted Cruz emphasized on a podcast on Tuesday his policy on immigration would be to deport
those in the country illegally while adding he believes it was wrong for the Clinton administration to send Elian Gonzalzes - the child famously at the center of a heated custody battle between his Cuban father and Miami-based relatives - back to Cuba in 2000. Cruz made the...
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Islamists destroy 5th-century Mar Elian (Catholic) monastery
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Catholic Herald ^
| August 21, 2015
The monastery was originally built in the fourth century Islamists destroy 5th-century Mar Elian monasteryISIS fighters have demolished a monastery in central Syria, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.The Mar Elian monastery in the town of Qaryatain near Homs, was captured by the terrorists from the Syrian
Army two weeks ago. This week they used bulldozers to raze the holy site,Mar Elian is also where Fr Jacques Mourad was kidnapped in May. He remains one of six clergy in Syria who have been kidnapped by rebel groups, their fates unknown.Qaryatain is near a road linking the ancient...
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Elian Gonzalez at 21
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Townhall.com ^
| May 22, 2015 | Mark Davis
The recent surrender of America’s tough line against Cuban communism got me to thinking about various moments in Cuban-American history. Not
long ago, I noted the 21st birthday of Elian Gonzalez, the boy returned to his father in Cuba after his mother died in a 1999 attempt to bring him to America in a small aluminum boat. The talk-show wars were furious during that winter and spring of fifteen years ago. I explained to callers that I shared their wish for Elian to grow up in America, and their lament at the prospect of returning him to the communist dictatorship...
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Elian Gonzalez wants to come to U.S.
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wnd.com ^
| 5/19/2015 | Cheryl Chumley
Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban who at the age of 6 was found floating in waters of Florida’s coastline, after the boat he was sailing with his mother capsized, said in a recent interview he’d like more than anything to visit the United States.
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Exclusive Interview: Elian Gonzalez Wants to Come to the US
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ABC News ^
| 05/18/2015 | By JIM AVILA and SERENA MARSHALL
Elian Gonzalez would like to return to the United States, he tells ABC News in an exclusive interview. "To
the American people, first I say thank you for the love they give me," Gonzalez said. "I want the time to give my love to American people." Gonzalez was found floating off of Florida's coast in 1999, after the boat he was in with his mother capsized. Gonzalez stayed with his uncle in Miami, but the 6-year-old boy soon found himself at the center of a tug of war between Cuba and the United States over whether he should remain in...
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Elian Gonzalez: 15 years after his rescue, a quiet life
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CBS News ^
| November 25, 2014 | Portia Siegelbaum
Havana -- Fifteen years ago today two fishermen plucked an exhausted, frightened five-year-old tied to an inner tube out of the waters off the coast of Ft. Lauderdale. Elian Gonzalez, less than two weeks short of his 6th birthday, was the young Cuban boy whose rescue set off an international custody battle
and reverberated in the 2000 U.S. presidential campaign. Now nearly 21 and out of the public eye, Gonzalez is studying industrial engineering at the university in his home province of Matanzas in Cuba.
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When you think of Eric Holder, please remember Elian Gonzalez
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Legal Insurrection ^
| 9-27-14 | Amy Miller
Don’t let that pre-Attorney General debacle go down the memory hole. As
we count down Eric Holder’s greatest hits, the first image that comes to the mind of many Americans isn’t that of Brian Terry, or of Black Panthers outside polling places, but of a screaming child staring down the barrel of a rifle. On April 22, 2000, just before dawn, U.S federal agents executed a full-blown raid on the home of five year old Elian Gonzalez, seizing the child and setting in motion procedures to send Elian and his father back to Cuba. I was only a freshman in...
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