MIAMI -- 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 communist-party daily Granma said Monday.

Elián González made headlines in 1999 as the boy found floating on an inner tube near Florida shores and became the center of an international custody battle between the U.S. and Cuba. Now 29 years ...

Elián González has the same big, expressive eyes he did 23 years ago when an international custody battle transformed him into the face of the long-strained relations between Cuba and the United ...

Elián González, the Cuban national whose precarious boyhood arrival in the U.S. in 1999 prompted a fierce international custody battle, is set to become a lawmaker. González was nominated by his local ...

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 ...