Your theory that my hatred of Castro and Clinton has clouded my judgement is wrong. I simply believe I recognize the type of individuals who are involved in the decision making process (based on past records) and understand on a different level how they're manipulating events.
Here is another interesting article backing up my assertion that Elians father truly would stay if given a reasonable opportunity by those in power.
INSIDER REPORT
Witnesses: Eli n's Dad Wanted to Leave Cuba
thenewamerican.com
On February 24th, attorneys representing the Miami relatives of six-year-old Eli n Gonz lez released sworn statements from relatives who stated that Eli n?s father, Juan Miguel Gonz lez, had told them of his desire for Eli n to come to the U.S. and his own plans to flee Communist Cuba. Also released were affidavits by a Cuban psychologist who had escaped Castro?s totalitarian regime and Sister O?Laughlin, president of Barry University, who hosted the meeting between Eli n and his grandmothers from Cuba.
"I know for a fact that Juan Miguel wanted to come to the United States," stated his first cousin, Maria Isabel Martell, who grew up with him in Cuba and arrived in the United States on June 23, 1999, five months before Eli n was found clinging to an inner tube off the Florida coast on Thanksgiving Day. "When my brother, Alfredo, and my husband left Cuba, Juan Miguel told me, in front of his mother and his relatives, that sometime in the future he would come, even if it had to be in a tub," Mrs. Martell said in her sworn statement.
"On several occasions, when I was living in Cuba, Juan Miguel stated, in my presence, that he wanted to come to the United States," stated Yusledis Ortiz, the wife of Alfredo Martell, a cousin of Eli n?s father. In January of 1999, Mrs. Ortiz stated in her affidavit, after Juan Miguel learned that her husband had made it to the United States, he told her and other relatives "that Alfredo should have let him know, so he could have come with him even if he had to row." He also told her that he desperately wanted to escape Cuba, but "what would hurt him the most would be to leave his son [Eli n] behind."
The statements of these relatives add to similar testimony provided earlier by others: Juan Miguel?s aunt, Georgina Cid; Juan Miguel?s uncle, Lazaro Gonz lez; Juan Miguel?s cousin, William Gonz lez; Spanish reporter Mauricio Vincent; other relatives; and neighbors interviewed in Cuba by Rev. Kilari Anan Paul (see "Eli n?s Odyssey," March 13th).
Dr. Marta Molina, for over 20 years a psychologist in Castro?s dystopia, arrived in the U.S. from Cuba in August 1999. "During the time I practiced as a psychologist in Cuba," Dr. Molina stated in her affidavit, "I saw over 500 children under the age of 16 who had serious psychological problems as a result of their disagreement or their parents? disagreement and refusal to indoctrinate the children in the Communist ideology." Based upon her personal experience and knowledge of the policies and practices of the Cuban government, Dr. Molina said, it is her professional opinion "that if Eli n Gonz lez, age 6, is forced to return to Cuba, he will be immediately taken into seclusion away from the mainstream, to reindoctrinate him in the ways of Communist ideology." "He will be told that his mother was a traitor, commonly referred to as a ?gusano? (a worm) because she left Cuba illegally and he will be forced to repudiate her memory as a traitor to the regime," she noted. "As with all other children I have treated," said Dr. Molina, "since Eli n Gonz lez has been exposed to the United States? way of life for such a long period of time, it is my professional opinion that the indoctrination and silencing of his thoughts and memories of the United States will, as it did in many other children, lead to depression and a psychological confusion which will result in severe psychological trauma and which will never be properly dealt with due to the instructions given to psychologists in the Republic of Cuba." |
