Re: [CTRL] Castro opens Elian museum
c, Many Merci beaucoups from New Hampshire. I think this is astounding news. Am sending this to the list so others can see it too. Did not know you are from the UK. Thanks, foxter - Original Message - From: c. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 9:14 AM Subject: [offlist] Re: Re: [CTRL] Castro opens Elian museum hey foxter from the bbc website http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1439000/1439443.stm mailed offlist as i have used all 7 ctrls today c. - Original Message - From: foxter To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 1:51 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Castro opens Elian museum Kindly, what is the source for this? Thank you. - Original Message - From: c. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 5:27 AM Subject: [CTRL] Castro opens Elian museum Sunday, 15 July, 2001, 01:50 GMT 02:50 UKCastro opens Elian museumCastro waves the flag for Elian and baby brother HiannyBy Daniel Schweimler in CardenasCuban President Fidel Castro has opened a museum where the central theme isthe story of the young Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez.Right behind you, sonElian was shipwrecked trying to reach the United States and became thesubject of a long and bitter custody battle between his relatives in Miami,backed by the anti-Castro Cuban American community there, and his father,supported by the Cuban Government.The Oscar Maria Rojas Museum in his hometown, Cardenas, 135km (85 miles)east of the capital Havana, is known as the Museum for the Battle of Ideasand focuses on the fight for the return of Elian.It shows pictures of the boy reunited with his father, the Cuban flag thatflew outside his grandparents' house during the ordeal and letters ofsupport from both the United States and Cuba.JubilationWhen the courts in the United States ruled that Elian Gonzalez could go homethere was jubilation in Cuba.Castro has befriended the Gonzalez familyElian returned to his home town of Cardenas in central Cuba in June 2000 toin theory lead a normal life.But he is accompanied by bodyguards, Cubans still wear t-shirts bearing hisface and the slogan 'We saved Elian', and President Castro attended hisseventh birthday party.On Saturday Fidel Castro addressed a crowd, made up mostly of flag-wavingschoolchildren, in a square behind the new museum.Elian's family were guests of honour.Elian has become a national heroPresident Castro praised their bravery and dignity and spoke of how close hehas grown to them.Elian's return to Cuba after a long and highly publicised custody battle inMiami was seen by the Cuban authorities as a huge moral victory over theUnited States.Elian, now seven years old, survived the shipwreck which killed his mother,and was taken in by his family in Miami who tried to prevent him returningto his father in Cuba.They failed and Cuba's most famous child became a symbol of what the Cubanauthorities hail as the latest in a long list of victories over their oldenemy, the United States.
Re: [CTRL] Castro opens Elian museum
Kindly, what is the source for this? Thank you. - Original Message - From: c. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 5:27 AM Subject: [CTRL] Castro opens Elian museum Sunday, 15 July, 2001, 01:50 GMT 02:50 UKCastro opens Elian museumCastro waves the flag for Elian and baby brother HiannyBy Daniel Schweimler in CardenasCuban President Fidel Castro has opened a museum where the central theme isthe story of the young Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez.Right behind you, sonElian was shipwrecked trying to reach the United States and became thesubject of a long and bitter custody battle between his relatives in Miami,backed by the anti-Castro Cuban American community there, and his father,supported by the Cuban Government.The Oscar Maria Rojas Museum in his hometown, Cardenas, 135km (85 miles)east of the capital Havana, is known as the Museum for the Battle of Ideasand focuses on the fight for the return of Elian.It shows pictures of the boy reunited with his father, the Cuban flag thatflew outside his grandparents' house during the ordeal and letters ofsupport from both the United States and Cuba.JubilationWhen the courts in the United States ruled that Elian Gonzalez could go homethere was jubilation in Cuba.Castro has befriended the Gonzalez familyElian returned to his home town of Cardenas in central Cuba in June 2000 toin theory lead a normal life.But he is accompanied by bodyguards, Cubans still wear t-shirts bearing hisface and the slogan 'We saved Elian', and President Castro attended hisseventh birthday party.On Saturday Fidel Castro addressed a crowd, made up mostly of flag-wavingschoolchildren, in a square behind the new museum.Elian's family were guests of honour.Elian has become a national heroPresident Castro praised their bravery and dignity and spoke of how close hehas grown to them.Elian's return to Cuba after a long and highly publicised custody battle inMiami was seen by the Cuban authorities as a huge moral victory over theUnited States.Elian, now seven years old, survived the shipwreck which killed his mother,and was taken in by his family in Miami who tried to prevent him returningto his father in Cuba.They failed and Cuba's most famous child became a symbol of what the Cubanauthorities hail as the latest in a long list of victories over their oldenemy, the United States.
[CTRL] Castro opens Elian museum
Sunday, 15 July, 2001, 01:50 GMT 02:50 UKCastro opens Elian museumCastro waves the flag for Elian and baby brother HiannyBy Daniel Schweimler in CardenasCuban President Fidel Castro has opened a museum where the central theme isthe story of the young Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez.Right behind you, sonElian was shipwrecked trying to reach the United States and became thesubject of a long and bitter custody battle between his relatives in Miami,backed by the anti-Castro Cuban American community there, and his father,supported by the Cuban Government.The Oscar Maria Rojas Museum in his hometown, Cardenas, 135km (85 miles)east of the capital Havana, is known as the Museum for the Battle of Ideasand focuses on the fight for the return of Elian.It shows pictures of the boy reunited with his father, the Cuban flag thatflew outside his grandparents' house during the ordeal and letters ofsupport from both the United States and Cuba.JubilationWhen the courts in the United States ruled that Elian Gonzalez could go homethere was jubilation in Cuba.Castro has befriended the Gonzalez familyElian returned to his home town of Cardenas in central Cuba in June 2000 toin theory lead a normal life.But he is accompanied by bodyguards, Cubans still wear t-shirts bearing hisface and the slogan 'We saved Elian', and President Castro attended hisseventh birthday party.On Saturday Fidel Castro addressed a crowd, made up mostly of flag-wavingschoolchildren, in a square behind the new museum.Elian's family were guests of honour.Elian has become a national heroPresident Castro praised their bravery and dignity and spoke of how close hehas grown to them.Elian's return to Cuba after a long and highly publicised custody battle inMiami was seen by the Cuban authorities as a huge moral victory over theUnited States.Elian, now seven years old, survived the shipwreck which killed his mother,and was taken in by his family in Miami who tried to prevent him returningto his father in Cuba.They failed and Cuba's most famous child became a symbol of what the Cubanauthorities hail as the latest in a long list of victories over their oldenemy, the United States.
