As the temperature rises, many Cuban families feel they have nothing left to lose because they have hit rock bottom.

CUBA's most famous boy, Elian Gonzalez, stood in the school courtyard, one child among 900, watching a clown, taking part in a mime show and yawning in the early-morning heat.

Twenty-five years after federal agents stormed a Miami home to seize 5-year-old Elian Gonzalez and return him to Cuba, the now 31-year-old industrial engineer and Cuban National Assembly member ...

On Thanksgiving 1999, Elian Gonzalez was found on an inner tube floating in the Atlantic Ocean off Dania Beach. His mother, lost at sea, died during an escape from Fidel Castro's Cuba.

Elián González has the same big, expressive eyes he did 23 years ago when an international custody battle transformed him into the face of the long-strained relations between Cuba and Cuban boy ...

Elián González has the same big, expressive eyes he did 23 years ago when an international custody battle transformed him into the face of the long-strained relations between Cuba and ...

Elián González has the same big, expressive eyes he did 23 years ago when an international custody battle transformed him into the face of the long-strained relations between Cuba and ...

González has given only a handful of interviews since he was unwittingly thrust into the geopolitical spotlight as a boy. In 1999, at just 5 years old, he and his mother were abo ...