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
fact follows press
Parading them around is not their problem, it's really our problem, the fact the press follows them everywhere.
disobey law
We reiterate that Lazaro will not disobey the law,
fighting fights-and-fighting freedom
We're still going to be fighting for the freedom of Cuba.
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.
boy came everybody front guns stood
When they came in, I stood in front of everybody and begged them, 'Please don't let the boy see the guns ... I'll give you the boy,'
bad boy shoot
... told me, give me the boy, give the boy or I'm going to shoot and they said a bad word, give me the ... boy.
certain fairly keeping lawyers
I'm fairly certain his lawyers are keeping that in the back of their mind.
both father grabbed
The father grabbed his son. Both started to cry. Very emotional.
came complete mission
That's right, ... He came to complete a mission here, and now he is going to complete it over there.