I have not been following the Elian Gonzalez case at all -- I haven't even watched any TV for three or four months -- but my half-Cuban, half-Dominican daughter-in-law Rebecca, who works with immigrants, has. She and my oldest son were visiting over Easter Holidays, and at one point popped into the TV room to catch the news. And suddenly I heard loud cheering and applause. It was Rebecca She was absolutely thrilled that the government had stood up to what she called "those Miami Cubans." She of course felt sorry about the boy being confronted by a gun-toting trooper, but said the real question was -- who stuffed Elian into the closet in the first place, and why?
In any event, there are quite a few people of Cuban origin or extraction in this country who loathe the "Miami Cubans," and are dying to see their political influence -- their strangehold on U.S. Cuban policy -- broken. Rebecca, for example, hopes that the Elian Gonzales case will be the beginning of the end for them.
BTW, Neocon, Rebecca is convinced that the charge of abuse is hooey, cooked up for the occasion.
Joan |
