Elian Gonzalez's Relative Plans Protest During Obama's Florida Visit

The Elian Gonzalez controversy is resurfacing on the 2008 campaign trail, as a great-uncle of the Cuban boy speaks out against two Barack Obama advisers who played a role in the dispute eight years ago.

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Friday, June 20, 2008

The Elian Gonzalez controversy is resurfacing on the 2008 campaign trail, as a great-uncle of the Cuban boy speaks out against two Barack Obama advisers who played a role in the dispute eight years ago.

The Miami Herald reported that Delfin Gonzalez planned to hold a news conference Friday in Miami to coincide with Obama's arrival in the state, where the presumptive Democratic nominee is holding a fundraising event Friday night.

Delfin Gonzalez told the Herald he would denounce Eric Holder, a member of Obama's running mate search team who was deputy attorney general at the start of the Gonzalez controversy, and Greg Craig, an Obama foreign policy adviser who represented Elian Gonzalez's father during the custody dispute with his relatives in Miami.

"We're going to express opposition to Barack Obama's visit to Miami, and explain how we're opposed to him having individuals on his campaign who were associated with Elian's seizure in 2000," Delfin Gonzalez told the newspaper. "Some wounds are so deep that they do not heal over time, such as taking a child and sealing his fate to a communist dictatorship."

Elian Gonzalez, now 14, was 6 when his Miami relatives lost a custody dispute that drew international attention. He was returned to Cuba in 2000 with his father after washing ashore on U.S. coastline following a boating accident off the Florida coast as his family fled Cuba.

Click here to read the full story in The Miami Herald.

 

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