Ten years ago, a dramatic international incident came to a head when U.S. federal troops raided a Miami home. On Thanksgiving Day 1999, 5-year old Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez is discovered floating in an ...
MIAMI — He was the cutest little kid and he was a story: a big story that lingered on for months dividing the Miami community, with implications that spread from the streets of Little Havana to ...
Twenty-five years ago, the amazing rescue of a young boy at sea would lead to a fierce custody battle that mirrored the decades-long tensions between the United States and Cuba. A gripping new podcast ...
Twenty-five years ago, a six-year-old boy named Elian Gonzalez appeared off the coast of Miami. He and his mother had been traveling by boat to the U.S. from Cuba. His mother didn't survive the ...
Given all the genuinely weighty events of the intervening years, from 9/11 to the Iraq War and the election of our first black President, it’s hard to imagine that a decade ago I and so many other ...