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Before I moved to Miami, I always had the view that Miami was the epicenter of everything, like the hanging chads and Elian Gonzalez ... There’s always something going on in Miami. And now that I’ve lived here for 10 years, it really is true. There’s always something here. So it didn’t shock me when I read about that laboratory.More quotes »
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Bombers have more rights than little Elian
by our government in the cases of Elian Gonzalez and the jihadist brothers accused of bombing the Boston Marathon. In the Elian Gonzalez case, that impeached disbarred felon Bill Clinton sent his storm troopers to the home of the 10-year-old’s relatives in from Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com Read more »
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Welcome Tamerlan Tsarnaev—But You’re Outta here Elian Gonzalez!
documents in his book Absolute Power--on Dec. 1, 1999 the INS asserted that Miami-based uncle Lazaro was indeed Elian’s legal custodian and Florida’s family court indeed the place to arbitrate further issues. But by January 5 the identical INS ruled that state from Town Hall Read more »
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Pitbull's rap response to Jay-Z's Cuba-trip Open Letter is a headscratcher for some
movie soundtrack appears to be sampled, FYI) to the Mariel boatlift crime wave to Operation Pedro Pan to Hermanos Al Rescate to Elian Gonzalez "Elian got snatched back, the whole world seen it," Pitbull intones (interesting fact: Diaz-Balart's brother, former from Miami Herald Read more »
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Couple Jailed After Fleeing to Cuba
abandoned in Madeira Beach, Florida. The family's flight to Cuba harkened back to the 1999 child custody case involving Elian Gonzalez, though unlike Gonzalez, the Hakkens had no apparent ties to the island. In 1999, 5-year-old Gonzalez was found clinging from AOL Small Business Read more »
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Cuba to return Florida couple and children
their own children from the mother's parents and fled by boat to Havana, ending days of drama that evoked memories of the Elian Gonzalez custody battle of more than a decade ago. Foreign ministry official Johana Tablada told The Associated Press in a written from Adelaide Now Read more »
