Cuban rafter Elián González said he wants to travel to the U.S., attend a baseball game
*What is the story?: Elián Gonzalez, the six year-old Cuban boy taken from his extended family in Miami at gunpoin, talked to an ABC News crew about the events of 2000, his life in cuba and his thoughts about the people of the U.S.
Why is it important?: Elián made some interesting comments during his talk with ABC News. He blamed the U.S. Cuban Adjustment Act for the death of his mother and his ordeal of being taken at gunpoint and returned to his father in Cuba in 2000. It puts the incident, that caused international controversy, in perspective 15 years later. VL
Elian González, the 6-year-old Cuban boy who was snatched by U.S. government agents from his Miami relatives at gunpoint in 2000 to be returned to his father in Havana, is looking forward to returning to the U.S. Now 21, he said he wants to personally thank the people who helped him after he was miraculously found by fishermen hanging onto an inner tube.
In a rare interview with him that aired Monday on ABC’s Good Morning America
, González said he wants to spend time in the U.S. “to give my love to American people,” but also see a baseball game and visit art museums.
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