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StarfishSaver

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22. I remember Maxine Waters challenging those who insisted that Elian's Miami relatives

Reply to Scurrilous (Reply #15)

Tue Nov 26, 2019, 09:41 AM

Nov 2019

Uncle Lazaro and cousin Marisleysis, who'd become media celebrities, would be better parents to Elian than his own father. She said something along the lines of "Elian's father is a loving, hard-working man. Do these people even have jobs? All I ever see is Marisleysis crying on television and Lazaro strutting around in the front yard in his undershirt with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth."

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20 Years Ago Today; 5 yr old Elian Gonzalez rescued by fishermen off FL [View all] Dennis Donovan Nov 2019 OP

That was a mess and a half nini Nov 2019 #1

His father showed remarkable patience jberryhill Nov 2019 #2

No kidding.. I don't know if I could have kept my wits about me nini Nov 2019 #6

This was a big story at the time. Mike 03 Nov 2019 #3

I was in South Beach that morning bluedye33139 Nov 2019 #4

That infamous photo of the INS agent and Elian proved one thing to be fake... Archae Nov 2019 #5

And conservatives fought like hell to keep Elian from being sent back to his home country StarfishSaver Nov 2019 #7

They will use any ethnicity temporarily--if it aids their larger goals. NCLefty Nov 2019 #18

No difference, really. They were demonizing Democrats in office. JHB Nov 2019 #21

One overlooked detail, his mother died trying to get him to the US and out of Cuba Arazi Nov 2019 #8

She had disrespected the wishes of his father alphafemale Nov 2019 #9

GMTA jberryhill Nov 2019 #14

We do not generally allow divorced parents to abscond with children jberryhill Nov 2019 #11

Very true Polybius Nov 2019 #19

Unfortunately Elian's story and they myths that followed obscured a critical international principle grantcart Nov 2019 #10

Yep jberryhill Nov 2019 #13

And by trying to force an emotional decision they were grantcart Nov 2019 #16

they made the right decision Skittles Nov 2019 #12

Those were fun times in So. Florida. Scurrilous Nov 2019 #15

I always thought The Miami Relatives Ron Green Nov 2019 #17

I remember Maxine Waters challenging those who insisted that Elian's Miami relatives StarfishSaver Nov 2019 #22

Lol jberryhill Nov 2019 #23

Yes. StarfishSaver Nov 2019 #24

ReTHUGs have been kidnapping children for a long time malaise Nov 2019 #20