Elian Gonzalez now a communist

James

HAVANA, Cuba (AP) -- The Cuban boy at the center of an international custody battle eight years ago has joined Cuba's Young Communist Union.

Elian Gonzalez said he will never let down ex-President Fidel Castro and his brother Raul Castro, according to the Communist youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde.

Raul Castro succeeded Fidel as president earlier this year.

Now 14, Elian was 6 when his relatives in Miami, Florida, lost their fight to keep him in the United States and he was returned to Cuba in mid-2000 with his father.

Elian had survived a boating accident off the Florida coast that killed his mother, who was attempting to get to the U.S.

Juventud Rebelde says in its Sunday edition that the boy was among 18,000 people who joined the group Saturday.

James

Funny how everyone in this country wanted this dipshit to stay here. There was nothing that made him anymore important than the billions of other foreign kids, and I was glad when they forced him back to Cuba.

PaSnow

I gotta agree with you. He needed to go back to his father. Funny how in 99 every loved the kid & wanted him to stay yet if it happened in 2005 or whenever illegal immigration became popular there wouldn't have been much of a story. "Get that kid the hell outta here!!"

I don't know if Cuba will remain communist or not, I doubt it. They would really benefit if the US lifted their ambargo with tourism and cigars.

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