Elian Gonzalez Emerges as a Candidate for Cuba’s Communist Legislature

At age 5, after reaching America in a desperate voyage by boat, he was seized at gunpoint by the Clinton administration and sent back to the communist island.

AP/Alan Diaz, file
Elian Gonzalez is held in a closet by Donato Dalrymple, right, as government officials search his relative's home at Miami on April 22, 2000. AP/Alan Diaz, file

The man once known as “Little Elian,” who as a boy was seized at gunpoint by American authorities after fleeing to America in a rickety boat and sent back to the communist island, is set to become a member of Cuba’s legislature.

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