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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: hoyasaxa who wrote (8401)	7/12/2000 3:42:15 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

Your logic is sadly typical of several posters here who have swallowed whole the Miami relative/FNAC line, it assumes that all cubanos wish to live in Miami. They do not. The great majority would not leave if offered a free ticket on a safe vessel. They are cubanos. A sizable portion, perhaps a majority, appreciates very much Castro's efficacy in keeping Cuba relatively free of the sort which controls Miami and US foreign policy. The weight of evidence i have seen leads me to believe that Juan Miguel and his father are most certainly among the former and may well be among the latter. The call was post departure. JM was said to call in a state of agitation, having discovered his son was gone and having correctly surmised where he was taken.

To: hoyasaxa who wrote (8401)	7/12/2000 4:02:15 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

According to all the reports I read- he went to his former wife's apartment and found it vacated and then found out that her lover's relatives had sold all their stuff and left. So (according to the reports) he assumed she had gone to America and called the relatives immediately (BEFORE Juan was found) and asked them to be on the lookout for the wife and his son. At the time he could not have expected the wife would die and the son would reach America alone- he probably assumed he had lost his son forever. I assume he wouldn't have had much luck getting the son back if the wife had lived- look how great she is dead- alive she would have been the virgin Mary (well, maybe not virgin) and I am sure Juan would have been out of the picture forever- to the delight and approval of all those conservatives who normally tell us how important a papa is for a young lad. Me, I think papa is important whether he is American or Cuban or WHATEVER. And one parent should not take a child physically away from another parent without agreement- barring physical abuse, or other factors that would rise to the level of grounds for terminating parental rights. As for your argument that tyranny be equated with abuse- it's a very subjective and quaint idea that we Americans get to judge everyone else to see if their countries are tyrannical. I hope you are aware that the Europeans would label us that for our stand on the death penalty- and I am sure they would happily dispose of American children using your argument (and they have so disposed of AMerican children- keeping them from their Stateside parents). Would you/do you like that outcome? I certainly don't and wouldn't.