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Elian Gonzalez was the six-year old boy who made headlines when his mother and he cast-away from Cuba to Miami. When the boat he was on capsized, his mother died. Elian was then kept from his father in Cuba by his Miami relatives. It was an international incident when American authorities forcibly took Elian from the Miami home and returned him to his father in Cuba.

Now at 16, Gonzalez is speaking out in defense of the relatives who cared for him in Miami. “Even though they didn’t help me in every way possible, they didn’t help me move forward, they are still my own family,” Gonzalez said in an interview.

“I don’t have anger for them,” Elian added. “It’s only that it wasn’t the best effort possible, and thanks to a large part of the American public, and our public, today I’m with my father and I feel happy here.”

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