Elian Gonzalez turns 18, quietly celebrates
Fidel Castro threw the substance of the Cuban government behind the set of circumstances, mobilizing seven months of massive demonstrations calling used for Gonzalezs repatriation. It was solitary of the little moments since 1959 as soon as the Cold War rivals agreed on something: The U.S. lawful coordination ruled with the aim of Gonzalez must happen returned to his father. But Gonzalezs Miami relatives refused to relinquish him, and on April 22, 2000, federal agents raided Elians uncles at home appearing in modest Havana and seized the boy from a closet by gunpoint. He returned to Cuba two months later on.