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Poor Elian! For the last six years, after he was forced to return to Cuba to become another slave, Elian Gonzalez had to celebrate his birthday with his real father, Fidel Castro. But now, the Cuban dictator is half dead and unable to attend his young slave's birthday party. However, that doesn't mean that Elian would be able to celebrate his birthday as a normal child. Not in Castro's Cuba! Elian, who today became a teenager, still had to "celebrate" his birthday party in the presence of two "viejos cagalitrosos," the new dictator-in-chief and Ricardo "Watermellon Head" Alarcon. Can you imagine? A teenager having to salute these two sinister characters on his birthday, after having been forced to do the same with Cuba's mass murderer for the last six years? Poor Elian! I wonder if Janet Reno remembered to send him a birthday card.
Elian Gonzalez: Who told the truth and who lied?
After 5 years of indoctrination Elian Gonzalez told the CBS 60 Minutes interviewer that 'he never had a good moment in Miami.' Is that true? You decide. Janet Reno said that she ordered the raid to forcefully remove Elian from his house in Miami, because "the child had to be returned to his father." Now, five years later, Elian told 60 Minutes that he considers Castro his 'father.' Was Castro the 'father' that Reno had in mind for Elian? You decide. Fidel Castro promised that he would never use Elian Gonzalez for political purposes if the child was returned to Cuba. Did he lie? You decide.
Elian's hometown After Elian Gonzalez was forcefully returned to Cuba to become Castro's personal mascot, the Cuban dictator, knowing that his foreign friends and the press were going to be visiting and taking photos of Elian's house, ordered that his house and other houses on that block were repaired and painted.
This is the street there Elian lives now. The houses have been freshly painted and the street has been paved and is relatively clean. Do you want to know how the rest of Elian's hometown really looks? Click on these images of Cardenas to see how different the rest of the town looks, compared to the block where Elian lives:
Eian's hometown, before Castro Here is how Cardenas looked before this plague of human termites arrived in Cuba in 1959. The Arechabala rum factory, the real owners of Havana Club, was based in Cardenas. In 1960 Castro stole the business and now he and the French company Pernod are selling the stolen version of the Havana Club rum everywhere except in the United States. The Arechabala family sold the right to the Havana Club name to Bacardi and this company is the only one authorized to sell the Havana Club brand in the US.
Rethinking Elian Tony Zizza is a freelance writer and advocate for fathers rights, who also serves as the Vice President of the State of Georgia for the nonprofit organization, Parents For Label and Drug Free Education. Mr. Zizza was one of those who were in favor of returning Elian Gonzalez to Cuba to be with his "biological father." However, six years later Mr. Zizza now believes that he made a mistake because he didn't understand what it meant for Elian to be returned to a totalitarian society like Castro's Cuba. According to his article "Rethinking Elian Gonzalez," one of the things that helped him change his mind is the page that we have here about Elian becoming Castro's personal pet. "With stories and photos of Fidel Castro's "personal health" bombarding us 24/7, I have given some second serious thought into my own involvement in the infamous Elian Gonzalez case. Once you hear the name "Elian", how can you ever forget this six year old boy and the media rampage that started in late 1999, and came full circle more than six years ago? Looking back, I have come to realize that in my advocacy to advance the concept of fathers' rights, I forgot to understand that young Elian was the wrong boy and the wrong case to champion in the name of American fathers' rights. We can properly state over and over and over again that fathers, and subsequently their children, are victimized far more often in family courts across this country, than mothers are. This must stop. However, you don't start to bring media attention to a noble cause with the wrong case. I'm speaking for myself, and understand a million and one divorced fathers will come down on me. So be it. Now, on the surface, there should not have even been a debate about returning Elian, once found floating on an inner tube in the Florida Straits, to his father. Elian's mother was deceased, and his biological father Juan Miguel Gonzalez was his last living parent. Here's the rub. Elian was not being returned to his father in Boston or Cleveland. He, a six year old boy with his whole life ahead of him, was being returned to a totalitarian regime. A Communist dictatorship that has been ruled by the same brutal man for almost a half century. For crying out loud! Personally, but without intending to do so, I was putting a social agenda above common sense and liberty. I regret this. Terribly. I should have known better....." "When you punch "Elian Gonzalez" into an internet search engine, there are many articles and pictures to view. My heart sank when I checked out this web site: http://www.therealcuba.com/elian_gonzalez.htm Everyone had an opinion about this case, and charges of all sorts when back and forth between all the parties. Again, it was an unbelievable media circus, and I just didn't "get it" at the time." Click here: Rethinking Elian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
