Elián González Brotons (born December 6, 1993) is a Cuban engineer and politician. As a young child, he was at the center of a high-profile international custody dispute between family members and involving Cuba and the United States.

A five-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is found on Thanksgiving Day clinging to an inner tube three miles off the coast of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

2023年6月30日 · It has been 23 years since the child Elián González, the center of a judicial and diplomatic dispute between Cuba, the United States and the anti-Castro exile community in Florida, returned to Cuba. Today he is a married engineer and father of a daughter, while he has just made his debut as lawmaker at the Cuban national Assembly.

2023年6月30日 · HAVANA (AP) — Elián González has the same big, expressive eyes he did 23 years ago when an international custody battle transformed him into the face of the long-strained relations between Cuba...

Here's where Elián Gonzalez is now. For many refugee Cuban exiles living in the United States, Elián was more than a castaway boy needing a home: He was a symbol.

2024年11月25日 · On Thanksgiving 1999, Elian Gonzalez was found on an inner tube floating in the Atlantic Ocean off Dania Beach. His mother, lost at sea, died during an escape from...

2014年4月2日 · Born December 6, 1993, in Cárdenas, Cuba, Elián González became the focus of an international political uproar in late 1999 and early 2000 after he was rescued from a boat accident that killed...