After almost 20 hours of negotiations over four days, immigration officials decided to suspend threats to send Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba before appeals are exhausted in the 4-month-old custody ...

Elian! Elian! Elian! Why is everyone fixated over the Elian Gonzalez story? We all know why hardened anti-Castro activists are obsessed with the boy's custody battle — Elian Gonzalez could not have ...

As a Cuban-American, I concur with Elena Freyre, director of the Cuban Committee for Democracy, that most Cuban-Americans are appalled by the behavior of Elian's Miami family and the lack of civility ...

The documentary Elián posits the story of 5-year-old Elián González, who was rescued off the coast of Florida in 1999 after attempting to leave Cuba with his mother (who drowned) – a long with its ...

Twenty-five years ago, the amazing rescue of a young boy at sea would lead to a fierce custody battle that mirrored the decades-long tensions between the United States and Cuba. A gripping new podcast ...

Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters NEW YORK -- Elián González, the Cuban boy whose custody battle stoked Cold War-era tensions, has been nominated to serve in the island's National Assembly, the ...

At a youth conference in Ecuador this week, Elian Gonzalez, famous as the focal point of an immigration battle back in 2000, spoke out against the United States' policy on Cuba, which includes a ...

Ten years ago this past June 28, Elián González was returned to his father in Cuba, and Alex Penelas’s rising political star imploded. Miami-Dade’s then-county mayor dug his own grave in 2000. Sure he ...

MIAMI (AP) _ The home that once drew hundreds of chanting protesters in Miami's Cuban exile community is now a shrine dedicated to the cause they lost _ Elian Gonzalez. The small house where the Cuban ...

On April 22, 2000 the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) raided the Miami home of Lazaro Gonzalez, the great-uncle of 6-year-old boy Elian Gonzalez. Lazaro had defied a court order in a ...

MIAMI - The small home where Elian Gonzalez lived while at the center of an international custody battle opened Sunday as a shrine to honor him. Elian's wooden swing set and a picture of his mother, ...