Elian Gonzalez
Elian Gonzalez
Elián Gonzálezis a Cuban student who, as a young boy in 2000, became embroiled in a heated international custody and immigration controversy involving the governments of Cuba and the United States, his father, Juan Miguel González Quintana, his other relatives in Miami, Florida, and in Cuba, and Miami's Cuban American community...
NationalityCuban
ProfessionOther
Date of Birth6 December 1993
CountryCuba
fighting fights-and-fighting freedom
We're still going to be fighting for the freedom of Cuba.
evidence gone saw traumatic
I saw no evidence that this person had gone through a traumatic experience.
fact follows press
Parading them around is not their problem, it's really our problem, the fact the press follows them everywhere.
love
We love him. He is always on our minds,
bad boy shoot
... told me, give me the boy, give the boy or I'm going to shoot and they said a bad word, give me the ... boy.
boy came everybody front guns stood
When they came in, I stood in front of everybody and begged them, 'Please don't let the boy see the guns ... I'll give you the boy,'
disobey law
We reiterate that Lazaro will not disobey the law,
doubt precious
He is a precious child, there's just no doubt about it.
human
This wasn't the right way to do it ... A human being would not have done what they did,
next step
I don't know what the next step is ... We're still talking.
looked relaxed since thinking
He just looked so relaxed and so calm, it's just something I ... have been thinking about since that day.
compromise unwilling
very unwilling to listen, stubborn, unwilling to compromise on anything.
czech far people republic
People come here from all over, and from as far away as Argentina, Poland, the Czech Republic and Japan,
community knows love loves
Elian knows we love him, the community loves him,