AP says Elian Gonzalez’ mother died in a boating accident
This has to be one of the most blatant attempts to whitewash a tragedy, a tragedy that should not have happened if Cuba was a free and democratic country.
Boating accident sounds so generic, as if a pontoon boat sank in the middle of a resevoir on Memorial Day.
It was not such. A group of people who hungered for freedom who were willing to do anything to escape the island prison the castro brothers turned Cuba into cobbled together a makeshift raft and attempted to cross the Florida Straits to freedom. Alas Elian’s mother did not survive and then the Bill Clinton Administration decided, at gun point, to allow Elian to be taken back to that island prison.
So now Elian has become a member of the Young Communist Union instead of being with family in Miami playing games.