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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.
Elian Gonzalez, whose rescue at sea on Thanksgiving Day 1999 when he was 5 years old set off an international custody battle, was nominated to become a lawmaker in the Cuban National Assembly Monday.
Elián González, the Cuban national who set off an international custody battle as a child when he was found floating alone in the Florida straits in 1999, is about to become a member of the ...
He is stepping into politics 23 years after an international custody battle transformed him into the face of the long-strained relations between Cuba and the United States.
Elian Gonzalez speaks to the press in Havana, Cuba, in November of 2016. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters NEW YORK -- Elián González, the Cuban boy whose custody battle stoked Cold War-era tensions ...
Elian Gonzalez is held in a closet by Donato Dalrymple, one of the two men who rescued the boy from the ocean, right, as government officials search the home of Lazaro Gonzalez for the young boy ...