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pstokely

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Thu Dec 12, 2013, 11:44 PM Dec 2013

Elian Gonzalez's great uncle: 'He says what they taught him' [View all]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/11/us/elian-gonzalez-family/

"He understands and says what they have taught him," Delfin Gonzalez told CNN en Español from his Miami home on Wednesday. "He cannot understand anything else."
Fourteen years after Elian Gonzalez made headlines as the subject of a bitter international custody battle, he spoke to CNN this week from a youth conference in Ecuador.
Elian: A hero in Cuba
It's his first trip abroad since the U.S. government removed him at gunpoint from his relatives' home in Miami and, after a legal battle, sent him back to Cuba to live with his father."
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