FILE - Elian Gonzalez is held in a closet by Donato Dalrymple, one of the two men who rescued the boy from the ocean, right, as government officials search the home of Lazaro Gonzalez for the ...

Mr. Gonzalez’s legislative term comes in the midst of historic emigration from the crisis-stricken Caribbean island, as many young Cubans seek a new life in the U.S. – just as his mother did.

Elian Gonzalez, the young Cuban boy who survived a boat sinking and became a political football during the 2000 U.S. presidential campaign as the subject of an international custody fight, is on ...

Gonzalez’s mother died during their sea crossing between Cuba and the United States in 1999 and Castro led demonstrations demanding Elian be returned to his father.

On April 22, 2000 the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) raided the Miami home of Lazaro Gonzalez, the great-uncle of 6-year-old boy Elian Gonzalez. Lazaro had defied a court order in a ...

The events in the film played out over Thanksgiving Day in 1999 when Elian Gonzalez was found floating in an inner tube by two South Florida men and ended seven months later when, legal appeals ...

Some Democratic Party insiders once postulated that five-year-old Cuban, Elián González, cost then-U.S. Vice-President Al Gore the 2000 presidential election. González became a central figure ...

He says he wants to thank Americans "for the love they give me." — -- Elian Gonzalez would like to return to the United States, he tells ABC News in an exclusive interview. "To the American ...

Elian was deeply unhappy living in America, the guide insists. He launched into a brief diatribe about Elian's "rescue." It's a word used often to describe Elian Gonzalez's ordeal.

Cosgrove, an Associated Press photographer in Florida, covered more than 100 space shuttle launches, the Elian Gonzalez saga, countless sporting events and the presidential recount before he died.

Elian González poses for a portrait in front of the Capitolio in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, June 27, 2023. Twenty three years after González became the center of a dramatic diplomatic custody ...

HAVANA (AP)–Elian Gonzalez has the same big, expressive eyes he did 23 years ago when an international custody battle transformed him into the face of the long-stra… ...