MIAMI — “Elián,” a documentary about the painful custody battle over whether a Cuban boy should be returned to his father on the island after his mother drowned at sea or remain with his Miami ...

Elián González greets me with a smile and firm handshake. He is unassuming and low-key despite once being at the center of a bitter international custody battle involving two Cold War enemies.

Months of angry rhetoric gave way to violence Saturday in Little Havana after federal agents raided the home of Elian Gonzalez's relatives and snatched the 6-year-old boy from the arms of the ...

Twenty-five years after federal agents stormed a Miami home to seize 5-year-old Elian Gonzalez and return him to Cuba, the now 31-year-old industrial engineer and Cuban National Assembly member ...

Many argue that it is an outrage to expect Elian Gonzalez to live in a place that tolerates no dissent or freedom of political expression. But I don't think Miami is so bad. Anyhow, this case is not ...

MIAMI — He was the cutest little kid and he was a story: a big story that lingered on for months dividing the Miami community, with implications that spread from the streets of Little Havana to ...

Elian González had some surprising things to say on state television as the Cuban government commemorates the 25th anniversary of his return to the island from Miami. The story of Elian González made ...

Given all the genuinely weighty events of the intervening years, from 9/11 to the Iraq War and the election of our first black President, it’s hard to imagine that a decade ago I and so many other ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in the Miami Herald on April 23, 2000. Armed with automatic weapons and firing occasional rounds of tear gas, federal agents seized Elian Gonzalez ...