Another interesting article...
Thursday May 18, 2000; 1:32 AM EDT
newsmax.com
Castro to Cuban Doctor: 'Shut up about Elian's Drugs!'
America's mainstream press has all but dismissed concerns that Elian Gonzalez may have been drugged during his stay at Maryland's Wye River Plantation.
Only The Washington Times and the Fox News Channel paid attention after NewsMax.com reported two weeks ago that Elian's Cuban pediatrician was caught carrying mood-altering sedatives on her way to visit the boy, the kind of medication that could explain Elian's oddly tranquil demeanor just hours after his traumatic April 22 abduction at gun point from the home of his Miami relatives.
Turns out someone else is paying close attention to the Elian drug story - none other than Fidel Castro himself.
Thursday night FNC's The O'Reilly Factor picked up on a report first broadcast over the weekend by the Spanish language television network Telemundo:
O'REILLY: As The Factor reported a couple of weeks ago, U.S. Customs seized some high-powered tranquilizers from a Cuban doctor on her way to administer to Elian Gonzalez. That caused a brief flap but was soon dropped by the media here in the USA. However, in Cuba Fidel Castro told a group that he is going to talk to the doctor so, in his words, "the whole thing will become clearer."
The Telemundo clip broadcast by Fox showed a panel of seven Cuban officials, described as "high level," listening intently as the Cuban dictator lectured. Hanging on the wall above the group was an enlarged reproduction of the first "Happy Elian" photograph taken by lawyer Greg Craig hours after the boy was seized by a U.S SWAT team.
O'REILLY: Now, when another doctor tried to tell Castro what kind of drugs could have been involved with Elian, Castro told him to "Shut up!" This is no smoking gun. The truth is, we don't know if Elian is being sedated, but our government should be drug-testing him.
The Telemundo clip, featuring a Cuban doctor acknowledging to Castro the very real possibility that the 6-year-old Cuban boat boy may have indeed been drugged while in America, should have sent shock waves through U.S. newsrooms from coast to coast.
In fact, after the Telemundo report was first referenced Tuesday on the Free Republic Web site, NewsMax.com could find no other media source, including Univision in Miami and The Associated Press in Havana, that could corroborate the stunning development.
If anything could be more shocking than the prospect that a 6-year-old Cuban refugee is being drugged on U.S. soil while U.S. authorities pretend to be oblivious, it's the refusal of the American media to cover the story. |
