HAVANA — 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 and the United States.
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Twenty three years after Elián González became the center of a dramatic diplomatic custody battle between Cuba and the United States, the young Cuban is now headed to his country’s congress with hopes of representing his people at a time of record migration and heightened tension between the two seaside neighbors.
Elián González is held in a closet by Donato Dalrymple, one of the two men who rescued the boy from the ocean, right, as government officials search the home of Lazaro Gonzalez for the young boy on April 22, 2000, in Miami, Florida.
Elián González, bottom, his great-uncle Lazaro Gonzalez and cousin Marisleysis celebrate with supporters Jan. 26, 2000, after they arrived home in the Little Havana section of Miami, Florida, after Elian met with his grandmothers who had flown in from Cuba.
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