Elian Gonzalez
Elian Gonzalez
Elián Gonzálezis a Cuban student who, as a young boy in 2000, became embroiled in a heated international custody and immigration controversy involving the governments of Cuba and the United States, his father, Juan Miguel González Quintana, his other relatives in Miami, Florida, and in Cuba, and Miami's Cuban American community...
NationalityCuban
ProfessionOther
Date of Birth6 December 1993
CountryCuba
love
We love him. He is always on our minds,
compromise unwilling
very unwilling to listen, stubborn, unwilling to compromise on anything.
next step
I don't know what the next step is ... We're still talking.
defend people
It's the least that someone can do, someone like me that owes so much to this people and to the revolution: study hard, but more than that, defend them under any circumstance.
Fidel Castro for me is like a father.
Because he'll take me to Cuba and I don't want to go to Cuba.
family famous meet suffered wants wherever
Wherever I go, there's always a child, an old woman, that comes to me and wants to meet me. Not because I am famous but because they suffered with my family.
crew god knew profess religion ship
I don't profess to have any religion, but if I did, my God would be Fidel Castro. He is like a ship that knew to take his crew on the right path.
evidence gone saw traumatic
I saw no evidence that this person had gone through a traumatic experience.
fact follows press
Parading them around is not their problem, it's really our problem, the fact the press follows them everywhere.
human
This wasn't the right way to do it ... A human being would not have done what they did,
looked relaxed since thinking
He just looked so relaxed and so calm, it's just something I ... have been thinking about since that day.
doubt precious
He is a precious child, there's just no doubt about it.
fighting fights-and-fighting freedom
We're still going to be fighting for the freedom of Cuba.