Elian Gonzalez Joins Cuba's Communists...Elian had survived a boating accident off the Florida coast

[seriousstan]

A fucking boating accident?

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/elian-gonzalez-joins-cubas-communists/20080615194909990001

[devilgrrl]

1. From 2000: 6 year boy becomes political football

[SoCalDem]

2. In Cuba , he's a celebrity.. I am not surprised that he's joined the party..

To get the most out of the society, he will do what he has to.. Like anyone else who lives there

[lapfog_1]

3. Well, it was an accident, and it was a boat.

In November 1999, Elián, his mother, and twelve others left Cuba on a small aluminum boat with a faulty engine; Elián's mother and ten others died in the crossing. The boat was operated by his mother's boyfriend, who resided in Miami and smuggled Cubans into the U.S. for money. Elián and the other two survivors completed the journey across the Florida Straits on an inner tube. Elián was rescued at sea by two fishermen who then gave him to the U.S. Coast Guard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%C3%A1n_Gonz%C3%A1lez

Of course, some might think it's criminal to put 14 people into a small aluminum "boat" and cross the open ocean in it.

[JackRiddler]

4. Saw this coming back then.

That was nuts. Pure nuts.

[ben_meyers]

5. A boating "accident" that killed his mother

who was trying to leave that island in spite of their universal health care and it being a workers paradise. What an ingrate she was.

[monmouth]

6. Elian was good PR for Fidel, Fidel rewarded the child and his

father with a good job and a good school to attend. I do understand the loyalty.