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Elian Gonzales Joins Cuba's Youth Communists

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HAVANA, Cuba (AP) -- The Cuban boy at the center of an international custody battle eight years ago has joined Cuba's Young Communist Union.

President Fidel Castro, left, poses with Elian Gonzalez after a May Day demonstration in Havana in 2005.

Elian Gonzalez said he will never let down ex-President Fidel Castro and his brother Raul Castro, according to the Communist youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde.

Raul Castro succeeded Fidel as president earlier this year.

Now 14, Elian was 6 when his relatives in Miami, Florida, lost their fight to keep him in the United States and he was returned to Cuba in mid-2000 with his father.

Elian had survived a boating accident off the Florida coast that killed his mother, who was attempting to get to the U.S.

Juventud Rebelde says in its Sunday edition that the boy was among 18,000 people who joined the group Saturday.
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2 responses // Elian Gonzales Joins Cuba's Youth Communists

  • Good for Elian, better than doing nothing
    jlaboy
  • I'm sure he has a bright political future in Cuba. I only hope that his generation can help lead the country from a police state with the Castro dictatorship to a thriving democracy that remains free from US and Miami exile domination .
    Brendan_M

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