[Again, I insist "The Elian Issue" has very little, IF ANYTHING, to do with Elian himself. Sad, BUT TRUE! At any rate, Fox's Hannity has had Alina Fernandez Revuelta on his show a couple of times. Other networks haven't even acknowledged her existence. --MS] http://www.bergen.com/region/castroki200005101.htm The Record - New Jersey Wednesday, May 10, 2000 Castro's daughter joining Jersey City rally for Elian By ELIZABETH LLORENTE Staff Writer She slipped out of Cuba seven years ago, wearing dark glasses, a disguise, and holding a Spanish passport. But today, she will share the spotlight with Lazaro Gonzalez -- the great-uncle of Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez -- at a rally at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, where dozens of Cuban exiles plan to call for democracy in Cuba. She is Alina Fernandez Revuelta, Fidel Castro's 44-year-old daughter and persistent critic. Fernandez says she is in New Jersey -- home to the world's second-largest Cuban-exile population, after Florida -- to draw attention to the oppression in Cuba. "It's impossible for anyone who's not Cuban to understand what kind of controlled life awaits Elian in Cuba," said Fernandez, who lives in Spain but often visits the New Jersey area. "It's hard to explain a dictatorship, and especially the lack of freedom in Cuba, to people in this country and many other countries around the world." Fernandez, who always refers to her father as "Fidel," said the Cuban president has managed to thwart criticism with "deft propaganda." "He's used propaganda on his people by drumming his anti-American rhetoric into their minds," she said. "And he's used propaganda on people outside Cuba, too." Rallies to show support for Elian and to call for democracy in Cuba are being held today in more than a dozen states. On Thursday, a federal court in Atlanta will hear legal arguments about whether Elian, who survived a shipwreck that killed his mother and 10 others bound for the United States, should have a political-asylum hearing. That same day, a rally in Manhattan will call for the repeal of the U.S. embargo against Cuba and the return of Elian to the island. The Liberty State Park rally, while expected to focus largely on Elian and Cuba, is not connected with the other rallies taking place around the country today. The local rally is being sponsored by IDT Corp., the Newark-based telecommunications company. IDT will launch a Web site at the noon event, aimed at educating people worldwide about oppression, said company executives. "It's all about freedom," said Fernandez, who along with Lazaro Gonzalez will be a featured speaker at the rally. "I am not against ideology. But a communist ideology seems like a relic; I mean, this is the 21st century." The last time Fernandez commanded the spotlight in the region was in 1995, when she joined in a protest against Castro, who came to New York to mark the United Nation's 50th anniversary. Castro has neither acknowledged nor denied biological ties to Fernandez. Fernandez was conceived in a romantic fling between her revolutionary mother, Natalia Revuelta, and Castro while he was scheming to overthrow former dictator Fulgencio Batista. At the time of the romance, Castro was married to the woman with whom he had his only legitimate child, Fidel Jr., in 1949; the son lives in Cuba. Growing up in Cuba, Fernandez saw her father occasionally. She often denied the rumors in her school that she was Castro's daughter. As Fernandez began to criticize Castro publicly, she became increasingly embarrassing to a dictator who has imprisoned thousands of dissenters. Castro cut all ties with Fernandez in 1983. Still, he apparently afforded Fernandez leeway denied to other dissidents. Fernandez likes to say that in Cuba, she lived in a "golden cage." In a 1995 interview with The Record, Fernandez said: "I was never penalized. The reasons I was left alone are obvious, I suppose. But people with dissenting views who associated with me, even Cuban reporters who talked to me, were penalized." The case of Elian Gonzalez has gripped Fernandez as strongly as anyone else. She calls the April 22 armed federal raid to seize Elian from the home of his Miami relatives "a sheer act of violence." "It's hypocritical for the leader of a country that has no laws -- that operates on the will of one man -- to use the laws and democracy of a country he constantly condemns for his own political benefit," Fernandez said. Whether Elian returns to Cuba or remains here, Fernandez said she hopes that both the child's father and Miami relatives will play an important role in his life. 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