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...Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Miami's rabidly anti-Castro lobby are poised to lock the little boy in a cold war custody battle between his U.S. relatives and his father and grandparents in Cuba. As soon as Elian was plucked from the ocean, Cuban-American politicians appropriated him as a poster child, even using a photo of him lying on a gurney to illustrate anti-Castro placards distributed at last week's World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle. "If the image of a child can be effective in campaigns like muscular dystrophy, then it can make people aware...
Five-year-old boys need lots of attention, and little Elian Gonzalez has been getting plenty since Thanksgiving morning, when fishermen found him lashed to an inner tube off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The boy and his mother Elizabet had fled their Cuban town of Cardenas three days before, along with 12 companions, in a small aluminum motorboat, which sank in heavy seas, drowning Elizabet and 10 of the others. After drifting for two days, Elian was rescued in good condition and is being cared for by relatives in Miami. But he cries out at night, fearing that...
...street near the football stadium every morning and hurries to Kirkland on foot. "I can't drive any farther," he said. "There's traffic, no parking and all one-way streets." His shared apartment in Allston gives him parking privileges there. Alberto lives with a Korean and a Cuban college student. "We never see each other because we're all so busy. We all cook for ourselves," he said...
...more personal note, Barrios, who is Cuban-American, started a book project for a Cuban library where some of his family members work...
However, because of sanctions against Cuba, the Cuban government did not allow him to donate the books to the town library...